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reading plan entry for June 8

Job 16 ()

[1] Then Job answered,
[2] “I have heard many such things.
You are all miserable comforters!
[3] Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
[4] I also could speak as you do.
If your soul were in my soul’s place,
I could join words together against you,
and shake my head at you,
[5] but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
The solace of my lips would relieve you.

[6] “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
[7] But now, God, you have surely worn me out.
You have made all my company desolate.
[8] You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
My leanness rises up against me.
It testifies to my face.
[9] He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me.
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
[10] They have gaped on me with their mouth.
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather themselves together against me.
[11] God delivers me to the ungodly,
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
[12] I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
He has also set me up for his target.
[13] His archers surround me.
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my bile on the ground.
[14] He breaks me with breach on breach.
He runs at me like a giant.
[15] I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and have thrust my horn in the dust.
[16] My face is red with weeping.
Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
[17] although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.

[18] “Earth, don’t cover my blood.
Let my cry have no place to rest.
[19] Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
He who vouches for me is on high.
[20] My friends scoff at me.
My eyes pour out tears to God,
[21] that he would maintain the right of a man with God,
of a son of man with his neighbor!
[22] For when a few years have come,
I will go the way of no return.

Job 17 ()

[1] “My spirit is consumed.
My days are extinct
and the grave is ready for me.
[2] Surely there are mockers with me.
My eye dwells on their provocation.

[3] “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
[4] For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
[5] He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.

[6] “But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
[7] My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
[8] Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
[9] Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
[10] But as for you all, come back.
I will not find a wise man among you.
[11] My days are past.
My plans are broken off,
as are the thoughts of my heart.
[12] They change the night into day,
saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
[13] If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
[14] if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
[15] where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who will see it?
[16] Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,
or descend together into the dust?”

Job 17:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.
Job 17:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Job 18 ()

[1] Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
[2] “How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
[3] Why are we counted as animals,
which have become unclean in your sight?
[4] You who tear yourself in your anger,
will the earth be forsaken for you?
Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

[5] “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out.
The spark of his fire won’t shine.
[6] The light will be dark in his tent.
His lamp above him will be put out.
[7] The steps of his strength will be shortened.
His own counsel will cast him down.
[8] For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
and he wanders into its mesh.
[9] A snare will take him by the heel.
A trap will catch him.
[10] A noose is hidden for him in the ground,
a trap for him on the path.
[11] Terrors will make him afraid on every side,
and will chase him at his heels.
[12] His strength will be famished.
Calamity will be ready at his side.
[13] The members of his body will be devoured.
The firstborn of death will devour his members.
[14] He will be rooted out of the security of his tent.
He will be brought to the king of terrors.
[15] There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his.
Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
[16] His roots will be dried up beneath.
His branch will be cut off above.
[17] His memory will perish from the earth.
He will have no name in the street.
[18] He will be driven from light into darkness,
and chased out of the world.
[19] He will have neither son nor grandson among his people,
nor any remaining where he lived.
[20] Those who come after will be astonished at his day,
as those who went before were frightened.
[21] Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous.
This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Job 19 ()

[1] Then Job answered,
[2] “How long will you torment me,
and crush me with words?
[3] You have reproached me ten times.
You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
[4] If it is true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
[5] If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach,
[6] know now that God has subverted me,
and has surrounded me with his net.

[7] “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
[8] He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
and has set darkness in my paths.
[9] He has stripped me of my glory,
and taken the crown from my head.
[10] He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
[11] He has also kindled his wrath against me.
He counts me among his adversaries.
[12] His troops come on together,
build a siege ramp against me,
and encamp around my tent.

[13] “He has put my brothers far from me.
My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
[14] My relatives have gone away.
My familiar friends have forgotten me.
[15] Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am an alien in their sight.
[16] I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
I beg him with my mouth.
[17] My breath is offensive to my wife.
I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
[18] Even young children despise me.
If I arise, they speak against me.
[19] All my familiar friends abhor me.
They whom I loved have turned against me.
[20] My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

[21] “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me.
[22] Why do you persecute me as God,
and are not satisfied with my flesh?

[23] “Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
[24] That with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
[25] But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
[26] After my skin is destroyed,
then I will see God in my flesh,
[27] whom I, even I, will see on my side.
My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.

“My heart is consumed within me.
[28] If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
because the root of the matter is found in me,
[29] be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
that you may know there is a judgment.”

Job 20 ()

[1] Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
[2] “Therefore my thoughts answer me,
even by reason of my haste that is in me.
[3] I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
The spirit of my understanding answers me.
[4] Don’t you know this from old time,
since man was placed on earth,
[5] that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
the joy of the godless but for a moment?
[6] Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
[7] yet he will perish forever like his own dung.
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
[8] He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found.
Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
[9] The eye which saw him will see him no more,
neither will his place see him any more.
[10] His children will seek the favor of the poor.
His hands will give back his wealth.
[11] His bones are full of his youth,
but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

[12] “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue,
[13] though he spare it, and will not let it go,
but keep it still within his mouth,
[14] yet his food in his bowels is turned.
It is cobra venom within him.
[15] He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again.
God will cast them out of his belly.
[16] He will suck cobra venom.
The viper’s tongue will kill him.
[17] He will not look at the rivers,
the flowing streams of honey and butter.
[18] He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down.
He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
[19] For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

[20] “Because he knew no quietness within him,
he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
[21] There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
[22] In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him.
The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
[23] When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.
It will rain on him while he is eating.
[24] He will flee from the iron weapon.
The bronze arrow will strike him through.
[25] He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.
Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.
Terrors are on him.
[26] All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
An unfanned fire will devour him.
It will consume that which is left in his tent.
[27] The heavens will reveal his iniquity.
The earth will rise up against him.
[28] The increase of his house will depart.
They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
[29] This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
the heritage appointed to him by God.”

Job 21 ()

[1] Then Job answered,
[2] “Listen diligently to my speech.
Let this be your consolation.
[3] Allow me, and I also will speak.
After I have spoken, mock on.
[4] As for me, is my complaint to man?
Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
[5] Look at me, and be astonished.
Lay your hand on your mouth.
[6] When I remember, I am troubled.
Horror takes hold of my flesh.

[7] “Why do the wicked live,
become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
[8] Their child is established with them in their sight,
their offspring before their eyes.
[9] Their houses are safe from fear,
neither is the rod of God upon them.
[10] Their bulls breed without fail.
Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
[11] They send out their little ones like a flock.
Their children dance.
[12] They sing to the tambourine and harp,
and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
[13] They spend their days in prosperity.
In an instant they go down to Sheol.
[14] They tell God, ‘Depart from us,
for we don’t want to know about your ways.
[15] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
[16] Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

[17] “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
that their calamity comes on them,
that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
[18] How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,
as chaff that the storm carries away?
[19] You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’
Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
[20] Let his own eyes see his destruction.
Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
[21] For what does he care for his house after him,
when the number of his months is cut off?

[22] “Shall any teach God knowledge,
since he judges those who are high?
[23] One dies in his full strength,
being wholly at ease and quiet.
[24] His pails are full of milk.
The marrow of his bones is moistened.
[25] Another dies in bitterness of soul,
and never tastes of good.
[26] They lie down alike in the dust.
The worm covers them.

[27] “Behold, I know your thoughts,
the plans with which you would wrong me.
[28] For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
[29] Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?
Don’t you know their evidences,
[30] that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,
that they are led out to the day of wrath?
[31] Who will declare his way to his face?
Who will repay him what he has done?
[32] Yet he will be borne to the grave.
Men will keep watch over the tomb.
[33] The clods of the valley will be sweet to him.
All men will draw after him,
as there were innumerable before him.
[34] So how can you comfort me with nonsense,
because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

Job 21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.