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Listen to today's reading by Tom Dooley © MasterMedia Ministries/Tyndale.
This content from World English Bible (public domain)
Then Job answered,
âI have heard many such things.
You are all miserable comforters!
Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
I also could speak as you do.
If your soul were in my soulâs place,
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you,
but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
âThough I speak, my grief is not subsided.
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
But now, God, you have surely worn me out.
You have made all my company desolate.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
My leanness rises up against me.
It testifies to my face.
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me.
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
They have gaped on me with their mouth.
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather themselves together against me.
God delivers me to the ungodly,
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
He has also set me up for his target.
His archers surround me.
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my bile on the ground.
He breaks me with breach on breach.
He runs at me like a giant.
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and have thrust my horn in the dust.
My face is red with weeping.
Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
âEarth, donât cover my blood.
Let my cry have no place to rest.
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
He who vouches for me is on high.
My friends scoff at me.
My eyes pour out tears to God,
that he would maintain the right of a man with God,
of a son of man with his neighbor!
For when a few years have come,
I will go the way of no return.
âMy spirit is consumed.
My days are extinct
and the grave is ready for me.
Surely there are mockers with me.
My eye dwells on their provocation.
âNow give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
âBut he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
But as for you all, come back.
I will not find a wise man among you.
My days are past.
My plans are broken off,
as are the thoughts of my heart.
They change the night into day,
saying âThe light is near â in the presence of darkness.
If I look for Sheol [Sheol is the place of the dead. ]as my house,
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
if I have said to corruption, âYou are my father,â
and to the worm, âMy mother,â and âMy sister,â
where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who will see it?
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, [Sheol is the place of the dead. ]
or descend together into the dust?â
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
âHow long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Why are we counted as animals,
which have become unclean in your sight?
You who tear yourself in your anger,
will the earth be forsaken for you?
Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
âYes, the light of the wicked will be put out.
The spark of his fire wonât shine.
The light will be dark in his tent.
His lamp above him will be put out.
The steps of his strength will be shortened.
His own counsel will cast him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he wanders into its mesh.
A snare will take him by the heel.
A trap will catch him.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him on the path.
Terrors will make him afraid on every side,
and will chase him at his heels.
His strength will be famished.
Calamity will be ready at his side.
The members of his body will be devoured.
The firstborn of death will devour his members.
He will be rooted out of the security of his tent.
He will be brought to the king of terrors.
There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his.
Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
His roots will be dried up beneath.
His branch will be cut off above.
His memory will perish from the earth.
He will have no name in the street.
He will be driven from light into darkness,
and chased out of the world.
He will have neither son nor grandson among his people,
nor any remaining where he lived.
Those who come after will be astonished at his day,
as those who went before were frightened.
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous.
This is the place of him who doesnât know God.â
Then Job answered,
âHow long will you torment me,
and crush me with words?
You have reproached me ten times.
You arenât ashamed that you attack me.
If it is true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach,
know now that God has subverted me,
and has surrounded me with his net.
âBehold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
He has walled up my way so that I canât pass,
and has set darkness in my paths.
He has stripped me of my glory,
and taken the crown from my head.
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
He has also kindled his wrath against me.
He counts me among his adversaries.
His troops come on together,
build a siege ramp against me,
and encamp around my tent.
âHe has put my brothers far from me.
My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
My relatives have gone away.
My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am an alien in their sight.
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
I beg him with my mouth.
My breath is offensive to my wife.
I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
Even young children despise me.
If I arise, they speak against me.
All my familiar friends abhor me.
They whom I loved have turned against me.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
âHave pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me.
Why do you persecute me as God,
and are not satisfied with my flesh?
âOh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
After my skin is destroyed,
then I will see God in my flesh,
whom I, even I, will see on my side.
My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.
âMy heart is consumed within me.
If you say, âHow we will persecute him !â
because the root of the matter is found in me,
be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
that you may know there is a judgment.â (WEB)
This content from Berean Standard Bible (public domain)
(2 Corinthians 9:1â15)
Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia: On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed. Then, on my arrival, I will send letters with those you recommend to carry your gift to Jerusalem. And if it is advisable for me to go also, they can travel with me.
(Romans 15:23â33)
After I go through Macedonia, however, I will come to you; for I will be going through Macedonia. Perhaps I will stay with you awhile, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go. For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, [That is, Shavuot, the late spring feast of pilgrimage to Jerusalem; it is also known as the Feast of Harvest (see Exodus 23:16) or the Feast of Weeks (see Exodus 34:22). ] because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.
(Philippians 2:19â30)
If Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am. No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he can return to me, for I am expecting him along with the brothers.
Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was not at all inclined to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.
Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong. Do everything in love.
You know that Stephanas and his household were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints. Now I urge you, brothers, to submit to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you. For they refreshed my spirit and yours as well. Show your appreciation, therefore, to such men.
(Colossians 4:15â18; 2 Thessalonians 3:16â18)
The churches in the province of Asia [Literally in Asia; Asia was a Roman province in what is now western Turkey. ]send you greetings.
Aquila and Prisca [Prisca is a variant of Priscilla; see Acts 18:2. ]greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house.
All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
This greeting is in my own handâPaul.
If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord! [Greek Marana Tha! from a transliteration of the Aramaic, an exclamation of approaching divine judgment ]
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus.
Amen. [SBL, WH, and NA do not include Amen. ] (BSB)
This content from World English Bible (public domain)
I waited patiently for Yahweh.
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay.
He set my feet on a rock,
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
and doesnât respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
and your thoughts which are toward us.
They canât be declared back to you.
If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Sacrifice and offering you didnât desire.
You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Then I said, âBehold, I have come.
It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
I delight to do your will, my God.
Yes, your law is within my heart.â
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.
I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
(WEB)
Psalm 40:1-3: I Waited For the Lord
Psalm 40:8; 1 John 5:3: I Delight To Do Thy Will
This content pulled from bible.org.
A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth,good favor more than silver or gold.
(NET)