August 23rd (Day 235) Bible Reading

Job 8:1-11:20
1 Corinthians 15:1-28
Psalm 38:1-22
Proverbs 21:28-29

 

Job 8:1  Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 

Job 8:2  How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 

Job 8:3  Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 

Job 8:4  If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 

Job 8:5  If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 

Job 8:6  If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 

Job 8:7  Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. 

Job 8:8  For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 

Job 8:9  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 

Job 8:10  Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 

Job 8:11  Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 

Job 8:12  Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 

Job 8:13  So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: 

Job 8:14  Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. 

Job 8:15  He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. 

Job 8:16  He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. 

Job 8:17  His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. 

Job 8:18  If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. 

Job 8:19  Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. 

Job 8:20  Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: 

Job 8:21  Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. 

Job 8:22  They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. 

 

Job 9:1  Then Job answered and said, 

Job 9:2  I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 

Job 9:3  If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 

Job 9:4  He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 

Job 9:5  Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 

Job 9:6  Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 

Job 9:7  Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. 

Job 9:8  Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. 

Job 9:9  Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. 

Job 9:10  Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. 

Job 9:11  Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 

Job 9:12  Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? 

Job 9:13  If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. 

Job 9:14  How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 

Job 9:15  Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 

Job 9:16  If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 

Job 9:17  For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 

Job 9:18  He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 

Job 9:19  If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead? 

Job 9:20  If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. 

Job 9:21  Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. 

Job 9:22  This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 

Job 9:23  If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 

Job 9:24  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? 

Job 9:25  Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 

Job 9:26  They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 

Job 9:27  If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 

Job 9:28  I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 

Job 9:29  If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 

Job 9:30  If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 

Job 9:31  Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. 

Job 9:32  For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. 

Job 9:33  Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 

Job 9:34  Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: 

Job 9:35  Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. 

 

Job 10:1  My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 

Job 10:2  I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. 

Job 10:3  Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? 

Job 10:4  Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? 

Job 10:5  Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, 

Job 10:6  That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? 

Job 10:7  Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. 

Job 10:8  Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. 

Job 10:9  Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? 

Job 10:10  Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? 

Job 10:11  Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. 

Job 10:12  Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. 

Job 10:13  And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. 

Job 10:14  If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 

Job 10:15  If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 

Job 10:16  For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. 

Job 10:17  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 

Job 10:18  Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 

Job 10:19  I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 

Job 10:20  Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 

Job 10:21  Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 

Job 10:22  A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. 

 

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 shew 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 stedfast, 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. 

 

1Co 15:1  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 

1Co 15:2  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 

1Co 15:3  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 

1Co 15:4  And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 

1Co 15:5  And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 

1Co 15:6  After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 

1Co 15:7  After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 

1Co 15:8  And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 

1Co 15:9  For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 

1Co 15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 

1Co 15:11  Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. 

1Co 15:12  Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 

1Co 15:13  But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 

1Co 15:14  And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 

1Co 15:15  Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 

1Co 15:16  For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 

1Co 15:17  And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 

1Co 15:18  Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 

1Co 15:19  If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 

1Co 15:20  But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 

1Co 15:21  For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 

1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 

1Co 15:24  Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 

1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 

1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 

1Co 15:27  For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 

1Co 15:28  And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. 

 

Psa 38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 

Psa 38:2  For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 

Psa 38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 

Psa 38:4  For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 

Psa 38:5  My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 

Psa 38:6  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 

Psa 38:7  For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 

Psa 38:8  I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. 

Psa 38:9  Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 

Psa 38:10  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 

Psa 38:11  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 

Psa 38:12  They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 

Psa 38:13  But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 

Psa 38:14  Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 

Psa 38:15  For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 

Psa 38:16  For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. 

Psa 38:17  For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 

Psa 38:18  For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 

Psa 38:19  But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. 

Psa 38:20  They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 

Psa 38:21  Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 

Psa 38:22  Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. 

 

Pro 21:28  A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly. 

Pro 21:29  A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.