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Day 159 of 365

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Job 10-13

Job Chapter 10

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ²I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. ³Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? ⁴Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? ⁵Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, ⁶that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? ⁷Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. ⁸“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. ⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? ¹⁰Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? ¹¹You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. ¹²You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. ¹³Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: ¹⁴if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. ¹⁶If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. ¹⁷You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. ¹⁸“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. ¹⁹I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, ²¹before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; ²²the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

1: “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2: I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

3: Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

4: Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

5: Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

6: that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

7: Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

8: “ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

9: Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

10: Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

11: You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12: You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

13: Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

14: if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

15: If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

16: If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

17: You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

18: “ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

19: I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20: Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

21: before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

22: the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

Job Chapter 11

¹Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, ²“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? ³Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed? ⁴For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’ ⁵But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you, ⁶that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. ⁷“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty? ⁸They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know? ⁹Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. ¹⁰If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him? ¹¹For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it. ¹²An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt. ¹³“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him. ¹⁴If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. ¹⁵Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear, ¹⁶for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away. ¹⁷Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning. ¹⁸You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety. ¹⁹Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor. ²⁰But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

1: Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

2: “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

3: Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

4: For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

5: But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

6: that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

7: “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

8: They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

9: Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

10: If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

11: For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

12: An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

13: “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

14: If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

15: Surely then you will lift up your face without spot. Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,

16: for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.

17: Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

18: You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.

19: Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.

20: But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Job Chapter 12

¹Then Job answered, ²“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. ³But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these? ⁴I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke. ⁵In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips. ⁶The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands. ⁷“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. ⁸Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you. ⁹Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this, ¹⁰in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind? ¹¹Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food? ¹²With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. ¹³“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. ¹⁴Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. ¹⁵Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. ¹⁷He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools. ¹⁸He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt. ¹⁹He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. ²⁰He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders. ²¹He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong. ²²He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death. ²³He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive. ²⁴He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. ²⁵They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

1: Then Job answered,

2: “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3: But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

4: I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

5: In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

6: The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

7: “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

8: Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.

9: Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this,

10: in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

11: Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

12: With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

13: “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

14: Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

15: Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

16: With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

17: He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

18: He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

19: He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

20: He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

21: He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

22: He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

23: He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

24: He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25: They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Job Chapter 13

¹“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. ²What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. ³“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. ⁴But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. ⁵Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. ⁶Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. ⁷Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? ⁸Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? ⁹Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him? ¹⁰He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality. ¹¹Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you? ¹²Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay. ¹³“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will. ¹⁴Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? ¹⁵Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. ¹⁶This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him. ¹⁷Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears. ¹⁸See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous. ¹⁹Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit. ²⁰“Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face: ²¹withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid. ²²Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me. ²³How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. ²⁴Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy? ²⁵Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble? ²⁶For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet, ²⁸though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

1: “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

2: What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

3: “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

4: But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

5: Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

6: Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7: Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

8: Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

9: Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

10: He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

11: Won’t his majesty make you afraid and his dread fall on you?

12: Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13: “Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

14: Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

15: Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

16: This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

17: Listen carefully to my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

18: See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

19: Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.

20: “Only don’t do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:

21: withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

22: Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

23: How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

24: Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

25: Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

26: For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27: You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

28: though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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