August 27th (Day 239) Bible Reading

Job 23:1-27:23
2 Corinthians 1:12-2:11
Psalm 41:1-13
Proverbs 22:5-6

 

Job 23:1  Then Job answered and said, 

Job 23:2  Even to day 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 for ever 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 24:1  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 betimes 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 25:1  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 26:1  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? 

 

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. 

 

2Co 1:12  For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 

2Co 1:13  For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; 

2Co 1:14  As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 

2Co 1:15  And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; 

2Co 1:16  And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. 

2Co 1:17  When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 

2Co 1:18  But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 

2Co 1:19  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. 

2Co 1:20  For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 

2Co 1:21  Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 

2Co 1:22  Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 

2Co 1:23  Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. 

2Co 1:24  Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. 

 

2Co 2:1  But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 

2Co 2:2  For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 

2Co 2:3  And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 

2Co 2:4  For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. 

2Co 2:5  But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. 

2Co 2:6  Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 

2Co 2:7  So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 

2Co 2:8  Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 

2Co 2:9  For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. 

2Co 2:10  To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; 

2Co 2:11  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 

 

Psa 41:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 

Psa 41:2  The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. 

Psa 41:3  The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. 

Psa 41:4  I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. 

Psa 41:5  Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 

Psa 41:6  And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. 

Psa 41:7  All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. 

Psa 41:8  An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. 

Psa 41:9  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. 

Psa 41:10  But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. 

Psa 41:11  By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 

Psa 41:12  And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. 

Psa 41:13  Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. 

 

Pro 22:5  Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. 

Pro 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.