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Day 167 of 365

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Job 40-42

Job Chapter 40

¹Moreover the LORD answered Job, ²“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.” ³Then Job answered the LORD, ⁴“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. ⁵I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.” ⁶Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: ⁷“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. ⁸Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? ⁹Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him? ¹⁰“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. ¹¹Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. ¹²Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place. ¹³Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place. ¹⁴Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you. ¹⁵“See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. ¹⁶Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly. ¹⁷He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together. ¹⁸His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron. ¹⁹He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword. ²⁰Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play. ²¹He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh. ²²The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him. ²³Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth. ²⁴Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

1: Moreover the LORD answered Job,

2: “Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

3: Then Job answered the LORD,

4: “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

5: I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

6: Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:

7: “Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

8: Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

9: Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

10: “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

11: Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

12: Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

13: Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

14: Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

15: “See now behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

16: Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

17: He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

18: His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.

19: He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

20: Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

21: He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

22: The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

23: Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

24: Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

Job Chapter 41

¹“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord? ²Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook? ³Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you? ⁴Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever? ⁵Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls? ⁶Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants? ⁷Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears? ⁸Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more. ⁹Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him? ¹⁰None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? ¹¹Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine. ¹²“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame. ¹³Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws? ¹⁴Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. ¹⁵Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal. ¹⁶One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. ¹⁷They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart. ¹⁸His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. ¹⁹Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out. ²⁰Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds. ²¹His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth. ²²There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him. ²³The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved. ²⁴His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone. ²⁵When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing. ²⁶If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft. ²⁷He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. ²⁸The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him. ²⁹Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin. ³⁰His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. ³¹He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. ³²He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair. ³³On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear. ³⁴He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

1: “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

2: Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

3: Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

4: Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

5: Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

6: Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

7: Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

8: Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

9: Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10: None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

11: Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

12: “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

13: Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?

14: Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

15: Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

16: One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17: They are joined to one another. They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.

18: His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19: Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.

20: Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

21: His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.

22: There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

23: The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.

24: His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

25: When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

26: If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

27: He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

28: The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

29: Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

30: His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31: He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

32: He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

33: On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

34: He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

Job Chapter 42

¹Then Job answered the LORD: ²“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained. ³You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know. ⁴You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’ ⁵I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. ⁶Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” ⁷It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has. ⁸Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.” ⁹So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job. ¹⁰The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold. ¹²So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. ¹³He had also seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch. ¹⁵In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. ¹⁶After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations. ¹⁷So Job died, being old and full of days.

1: Then Job answered the LORD:

2: “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

3: You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

4: You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

5: I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

6: Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

7: It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

8: Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

9: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.

10: The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11: Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

12: So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

13: He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14: He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

15: In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16: After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

17: So Job died, being old and full of days.

Psalms 1-3

Psalms Chapter 1

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; ²but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night. ³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper. ⁴The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. ⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalms Chapter 2

¹Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? ²The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying, ³“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.” ⁴He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. ⁵Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath: ⁶“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.” ⁷I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father. ⁸Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. ⁹You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” ¹⁰Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. ¹¹Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. ¹²Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

1: Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

2: The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,

3: “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

4: He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

5: Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

6: “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

7: I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

8: Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

9: You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

10: Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

11: Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

12: Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Psalms Chapter 3

¹LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. ²Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” ³But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. ⁴I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. ⁵I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for the LORD sustains me. ⁶I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side. ⁷Arise, LORD! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked. ⁸Salvation belongs to the LORD. May your blessing be on your people.

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