Today’s Reading :  Job 21 – 26  and  1Thessalonians 5  (KJV)

 

 

Job 21

Job 21:1  But Job answered and said,

Job 21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Job 21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4  As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Job 21:5  Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:6  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Job 21:7  Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Job 21:8  Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:10  Their bull engendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Job 21:11  They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 21:12  They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Job 21:13  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Job 21:14  Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 21:16  Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:17  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Job 21:18  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Job 21:19  God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Job 21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21  For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Job 21:22  Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Job 21:23  One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Job 21:25  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Job 21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Job 21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Job 21:28  For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 21:29  Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Job 21:30  That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Job 21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Job 21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

Job 21:33  The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Job 21:34  How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

 

 

Job 22

Job 22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Job 22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Job 22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 22:4  Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

Job 22:5  Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Job 22:6  For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withheld bread from the hungry.

Job 22:8  But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Job 22:9  Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 22:10  Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Job 22:11  Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 22:12  Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 22:13  And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Job 22:14  Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Job 22:15  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Job 22:16  Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Job 22:17  Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Job 22:18  Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 22:19  The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

Job 22:20  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

Job 22:21  Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Job 22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Job 22:24  Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Job 22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Job 22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Job 22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Job 22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Job 22:29  When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

Job 22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

 

 

Job 23

Job 23:1  Then Job answered and said,

Job 23:2  Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Job 23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Job 23:4  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 23:5  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Job 23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Job 23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.

Job 23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Job 23:9  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Job 23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 23:11  My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Job 23:12  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Job 23:14  For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Job 23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Job 23:16  For God maketh my heart soft and the Almighty troubleth me:

Job 23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

 

 

Job 24

Job 24:1  Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Job 24:2  Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Job 24:3  They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:4  They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 24:5  Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising quickly for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Job 24:6  They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

Job 24:7  They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:8  They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Job 24:9  They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Job 24:10  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Job 24:11  Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Job 24:12  Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Job 24:13  They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 24:14  The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Job 24:15  The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Job 24:16  In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Job 24:17  For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Job 24:18  He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

Job 24:19  Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Job 24:20  The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Job 24:21  He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

Job 24:22  He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

Job 24:23  Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 24:24  They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Job 24:25  And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

 

 

Job 25

Job 25:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 25:2  Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

Job 25:3  Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Job 25:4  How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Job 25:5  Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

Job 25:6  How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

 

 

Job 26

Job 26:1  But Job answered and said,

Job 26:2  How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

Job 26:3  How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Job 26:4  To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Job 26:5  Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

Job 26:6  Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Job 26:7  He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:8  He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

Job 26:9  He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

Job 26:10  He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Job 26:11  The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Job 26:12  He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Job 26:13  By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Job 26:14  Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

 

 

1Thessalonians 5

1Th 5:1  But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

1Th 5:2  For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

1Th 5:3  For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

1Th 5:4  But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

1Th 5:6  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

1Th 5:7  For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

1Th 5:8  But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

1Th 5:9  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Th 5:10  Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

1Th 5:11  Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

1Th 5:12  And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

1Th 5:13  And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

1Th 5:14  Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

1Th 5:15  See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

1Th 5:16  Rejoice evermore.

1Th 5:17  Pray without ceasing.

1Th 5:18  In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1Th 5:19  Quench not the Spirit.

1Th 5:20  Despise not prophesyings.

1Th 5:21  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

1Th 5:22  Abstain from all appearance of evil.

1Th 5:23  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1Th 5:24  Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

1Th 5:25  Brethren, pray for us.

1Th 5:26  Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

1Th 5:27  I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

1Th 5:28  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.