Today’s
Reading : Job 11 – 15 and 1Thessalonians
3 (KJV)
Job 11
Job
11:1 Then answered Zophar
the Naamathite, and said,
Job 11:2 Should not the multitude of words be
answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace?
and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee
ashamed?
Job 11:4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine
eyes.
Job 11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his
lips against thee;
Job 11:6 And that he would show thee the secrets of
wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that
God exacteth of thee less
than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst
thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Job 11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper
than hell; what canst thou know?
Job 11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the
sea.
Job 11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather
together, then who can hinder him?
Job 11:11 For he knoweth vain
men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then
consider it?
Job 11:12 For vain man would be wise, though man be
born like a wild ass's colt.
Job 11:13 If thou prepare thine
heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Job 11:14 If iniquity be
in thine hand, put it far away, and let not
wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job 11:15 For then shalt thou
lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be
steadfast, and shalt not fear:
Job 11:16 Because thou shalt
forget thy misery, and remember it
as waters that pass away:
Job 11:17 And thine age shall be clearer than the
noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Job 11:18 And thou shalt be
secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee,
and thou shalt
take thy rest in safety.
Job 11:19 Also thou shalt lie
down, and none shall make thee afraid;
yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and
they shall not escape, and their hope shall
be as
the giving up of the ghost.
Job 12
Job
12:1 And Job answered and said,
Job 12:2 No doubt but ye are
the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 12:4 I am as
one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God,
and he answereth him: the just upright man is
laughed to scorn.
Job 12:5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is
as a lamp despised in the thought of him
that is at ease.
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they
that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth
abundantly.
Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach
thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach
thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Job 12:9 Who knoweth not in
all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Job 12:10 In whose hand is
the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth
taste his meat?
Job 12:12 With the ancient is
wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:13 With him is
wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaketh
down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a
man, and there can be no opening.
Job 12:15 Behold, he withholdeth
the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them
out, and they overturn the earth.
Job 12:16 With him is
strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are
his.
Job 12:17 He leadeth counsellors
away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Job 12:18 He looseth the bond
of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job 12:19 He leadeth princes
away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Job 12:20 He removeth away
the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the
understanding of the aged.
Job 12:21 He poureth contempt
upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the
mighty.
Job 12:22 He discovereth deep
things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the
shadow of death.
Job 12:23 He increaseth the
nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth
the nations, and straiteneth them again.
Job 12:24 He taketh away the
heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth
them to wander in a wilderness where there is
no way.
Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a
drunken man.
Job 13
Job
13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job 13:2 What ye know, the
same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I
desire to reason with God.
Job 13:4 But ye are
forgers of lies, ye are all physicians
of no value.
Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace!
and it should be your wisdom.
Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the
pleadings of my lips.
Job 13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk
deceitfully for him?
Job 13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend
for God?
Job 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or
as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Job 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly
accept persons.
Job 13:11 Shall not his excellency
make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Job 13:12 Your remembrances are
like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may
speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and
put my life in mine hand?
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:
but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 13:16 He also shall
be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall
not come before him.
Job 13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration
with your ears.
Job 13:18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 13:19 Who is
he that will plead with me? for now, if
I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Job 13:20 Only do not two things
unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Job 13:21 Withdraw thine hand
far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Job 13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me
speak, and answer thou me.
Job 13:23 How many are
mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:24 Wherefore hidest
thou thy face, and holdest me for thine
enemy?
Job 13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and
wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:26 For thou writest
bitter things against me, and makest me to possess
the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13:27 Thou puttest my
feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto
all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of
my feet.
Job 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 14
Job
14:1 Man that
is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut
down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:3 And dost thou open thine
eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment
with thee?
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are
determined, the number of his months are
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he
shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut
down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not
cease.
Job 14:8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,
and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job 14:9 Yet
through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up
the ghost, and where is he?
Job 14:11 As the
waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Job 14:12 So man lieth down,
and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised
out of their sleep.
Job 14:13 O that thou wouldest
hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me
secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest
appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I
wait, till my change come.
Job 14:15 Thou shalt call,
and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Job 14:16 For now thou numberest
my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job 14:17 My transgression is
sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 14:18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to
naught, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Job 14:19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Job 14:20 Thou prevailest
forever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest
him away.
Job 14:21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and
they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job 14:22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and
his soul within him shall mourn.
Job 15
Job
15:1 Then answered Eliphaz
the Temanite, and said,
Job 15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and
fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or
with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:4 Yea, thou castest
off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job 15:5 For thy mouth uttereth
thine iniquity, and thou choosest
the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine
own lips testify against thee.
Job 15:7 Art
thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Job 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost
thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Job 15:9 What knowest thou,
that we know not? what understandest thou, which is
not in us?
Job 15:10 With us are
both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
than thy father.
Job 15:11 Are
the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Job 15:12 Why doth thine
heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
Job 15:13 That thou turnest
thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:14 What is
man, that he should be clean? and he which is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth
no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
iniquity like water?
Job 15:17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Job 15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers,
and have not hid it:
Job 15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no
stranger passed among them.
Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth
with pain all his days, and the number
of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is
in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of
darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad
for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;
they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:25 For he stretcheth
out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself
against the Almighty.
Job 15:26 He runneth upon
him, even on his
neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job 15:27 Because he covereth
his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his
flanks.
Job 15:28 And he dwelleth in
desolate cities, and in houses which no
man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his
substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the
earth.
Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the
flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go
away.
Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:
for vanity shall be his recompense.
Job 15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and
his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the
vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be
desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth
vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
1Thessalonians 3
1Th
3:1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we
thought it good to be left at Athens alone;
1Th 3:2 And sent Timothy, our brother, and minister
of God, and our fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and
to comfort you concerning your faith:
1Th 3:3 That no man should be moved by these
afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
1Th 3:4 For verily, when we were with you, we told
you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye
know.
1Th 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer
forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted
you, and our labour be in vain.
1Th 3:6 But now when Timothy came from you unto us,
and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good
remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see
you:
1Th 3:7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over
you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:
1Th 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the
Lord.
1Th 3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again
for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
1Th 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we
might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
1Th 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord
Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
1Th 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound
in love one toward another, and toward all men,
even as we do toward you:
1Th 3:13 To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.