Today’s
Reading : Job 27 – 31 and 2Thessalonians
1 (KJV)
Job 27
Job
27:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 27:2 As God
liveth, who
hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who
hath vexed my soul;
Job 27:3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
Job 27:4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my
tongue utter deceit.
Job 27:5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I
die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not
let it go: my heart shall not reproach me
so long as I live.
Job 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 27:8 For what is
the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh
away his soul?
Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh
upon him?
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will
he always call upon God?
Job 27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is
with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Job 27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Job 27:13 This is
the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for
the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in
death: and his widows shall not weep.
Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and
prepare raiment as the clay;
Job 27:17 He may prepare it,
but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver.
Job 27:18 He buildeth his
house as a moth, and as a booth that the
keeper maketh.
Job 27:19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not
be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Job 27:20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest
stealeth him away in the night.
Job 27:21 The east wind carrieth
him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job 27:22 For God
shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job 27:23 Men
shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job 28
Job
28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a
place for gold where they fine it.
Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out
of the stone.
Job 28:3 He setteth an end
to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the
stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Job 28:4 The flood breaketh
out from the inhabitant; even the waters
forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under
it is turned up as it were fire.
Job 28:6 The stones of it are
the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Job 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth,
and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
Job 28:8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor
the fierce lion passed by it.
Job 28:9 He putteth forth
his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains
by the roots.
Job 28:10 He cutteth out
rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every
precious thing.
Job 28:11 He bindeth the
floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth
he forth to light.
Job 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:13 Man knoweth not the
price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job 28:14 The depth saith, It
is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Job 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall
silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Job 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and
the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of
pearls: for the price of wisdom is above
rubies.
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it,
neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
Job 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Job 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the
fame thereof with our ears.
Job 28:23 God understandeth
the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job 28:24 For he looketh to
the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Job 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Job 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way
for the lightning of the thunder:
Job 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he
prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the
Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from
evil is understanding.
Job 29
Job
29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Job 29:2 Oh that I were as in
months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job 29:3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when
by his light I walked through darkness;
Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the
secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
Job 29:5 When the Almighty was
yet with me, when my children were about me;
Job 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the
rock poured me out rivers of oil;
Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city,
when I prepared my seat in the street!
Job 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and
the aged arose, and stood up.
Job 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue
cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and
the fatherless, and him that had
none to help him.
Job 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish
came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my
judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:16 I was
a father to the poor: and the cause which
I knew not I searched out.
Job 29:17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and
plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Job 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I
shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job 29:19 My root was
spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job 29:20 My glory was
fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job 29:21 Unto me men
gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job 29:22 After my words they spoke not again and my
speech dropped upon them.
Job 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and
they opened their mouth wide as for the
latter rain.
Job 29:24 If I
laughed on them, they believed it not;
and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and
dwelt as a king in the army, as one that
comforteth the mourners.
Job 30
Job
30:1 But now they
that are
younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to
have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 Yea, whereto might
the strength of their hands profit me,
in whom old age was perished?
Job 30:3 For want and famine they were
solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper
roots for their meat.
Job 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Job 30:6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the
nettles they were gathered together.
Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base
men: they were viler than the earth.
Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their
byword.
Job 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and
spare not to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted
me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job 30:12 Upon my
right hand rise the youth; they push
away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my
calamity, they have no helper.
Job 30:14 They came upon
me as a wide breaking in of waters:
in the desolation they rolled themselves upon
me.
Job 30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my
soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the
days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night
season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am
become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I
stand up, and thou regardest me not.
Job 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong
hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Job 30:22 Thou liftest me up
to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it,
and dissolvest my substance.
Job 30:23 For I know that
thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his
destruction.
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?
was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me:
and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of
affliction prevented me.
Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to
owls.
Job 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are
burned with heat.
Job 30:31 My harp also is turned
to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Job 31
Job
31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then
should I think upon a maid?
Job 31:2 For what portion of God is there
from above? and what inheritance of the
Almighty from on high?
Job 31:3 Is not
destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment
to the workers of iniquity?
Job 31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my
steps?
Job 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot
hath hasted to deceit;
Job 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that
God may know mine integrity.
Job 31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and
mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job 31:8 Then
let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
Job 31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,
or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s
door;
Job 31:10 Then
let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Job 31:11 For this is
a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by
the judges.
Job 31:12 For it is
a fire that consumeth
to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Job 31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant
or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Job 31:14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth,
what shall I answer him?
Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him?
and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the
widow to fail;
Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the
fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me,
as with a father, and I have guided her
from my mother's womb;)
Job 31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of
clothing, or any poor without covering;
Job 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not
warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the
fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Job 31:22 Then
let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Job 31:23 For destruction from
God was a terror to me, and by reason of
his highness I could not endure.
Job 31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to
the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Job 31:25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Job 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the
moon walking in brightness;
Job 31:27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or
my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Job 31:28 This also were
an iniquity to be punished
by the judge: for I should have denied
the God that is
above.
Job 31:29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that
hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job 31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by
wishing a curse to his soul.
Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that
we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Job 31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by
hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the
contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Job 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that
the Almighty would answer me, and that
mine adversary had written a book.
Job 31:36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as
a crown to me.
Job 31:37 I would declare unto him the number of my
steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
Job 31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the
furrows likewise thereof complain;
Job 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without
money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
Job 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and
cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
2Thessalonians 1
2Th
1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the
church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Th 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
2Th 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the
churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and
tribulations that ye endure:
2Th 1:5 Which is
a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted
worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2Th 1:6 Seeing it
is a righteous thing with God to
recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2Th 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Th 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his
saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among
you was believed) in that day.
2Th 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that
our God would count you worthy of this
calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
goodness, and the work of faith with power:
2Th 1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be
glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord
Jesus Christ.