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reading plan entry for June 7

Job 11 ()

[1] Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
[2] “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered?
Should a man full of talk be justified?
[3] Should your boastings make men hold their peace?
When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
[4] For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure.
I am clean in your eyes.’
[5] But oh that God would speak,
and open his lips against you,
[6] that he would show you the secrets of wisdom!
For true wisdom has two sides.
Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

[7] “Can you fathom the mystery of God?
Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
[8] They are high as heaven. What can you do?
They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
[9] Its measure is longer than the earth,
and broader than the sea.
[10] If he passes by, or confines,
or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
[11] For he knows false men.
He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
[12] An empty-headed man becomes wise
when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

[13] “If you set your heart aright,
stretch out your hands toward him.
[14] If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away.
Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
[15] Surely then you will lift up your face without spot.
Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear,
[16] for you will forget your misery.
You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
[17] Life will be clearer than the noonday.
Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
[18] You will be secure, because there is hope.
Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.
[19] Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid.
Yes, many will court your favor.
[20] But the eyes of the wicked will fail.
They will have no way to flee.
Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Job 11:8 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Job 12 ()

[1] Then Job answered,
[2] “No doubt, but you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.
[3] But I have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
[4] I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor,
I, who called on God, and he answered.
The just, the blameless man is a joke.
[5] In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.
It is ready for them whose foot slips.
[6] The tents of robbers prosper.
Those who provoke God are secure,
who carry their god in their hands.

[7] “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you;
the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
[8] Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you.
The fish of the sea will declare to you.
[9] Who doesn’t know that in all these,
Yahweh’s hand has done this,
[10] in whose hand is the life of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind?
[11] Doesn’t the ear try words,
even as the palate tastes its food?
[12] With aged men is wisdom,
in length of days understanding.

[13] “With God is wisdom and might.
He has counsel and understanding.
[14] Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again.
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
[15] Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up.
Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
[16] With him is strength and wisdom.
The deceived and the deceiver are his.
[17] He leads counselors away stripped.
He makes judges fools.
[18] He loosens the bond of kings.
He binds their waist with a belt.
[19] He leads priests away stripped,
and overthrows the mighty.
[20] He removes the speech of those who are trusted,
and takes away the understanding of the elders.
[21] He pours contempt on princes,
and loosens the belt of the strong.
[22] He uncovers deep things out of darkness,
and brings out to light the shadow of death.
[23] He increases the nations, and he destroys them.
He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
[24] He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth,
and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
[25] They grope in the dark without light.
He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Job 13 ()

[1] “Behold, my eye has seen all this.
My ear has heard and understood it.
[2] What you know, I know also.
I am not inferior to you.

[3] “Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
I desire to reason with God.
[4] But you are forgers of lies.
You are all physicians of no value.
[5] Oh that you would be completely silent!
Then you would be wise.
[6] Hear now my reasoning.
Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
[7] Will you speak unrighteously for God,
and talk deceitfully for him?
[8] Will you show partiality to him?
Will you contend for God?
[9] Is it good that he should search you out?
Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
[10] He will surely reprove you
if you secretly show partiality.
[11] Won’t his majesty make you afraid
and his dread fall on you?
[12] Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
Your defenses are defenses of clay.

[13] “Be silent!
Leave me alone, that I may speak.
Let come on me what will.
[14] Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
and put my life in my hand?
[15] Behold, he will kill me.
I have no hope.
Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
[16] This also will be my salvation,
that a godless man will not come before him.
[17] Listen carefully to my speech.
Let my declaration be in your ears.
[18] See now, I have set my cause in order.
I know that I am righteous.
[19] Who is he who will contend with me?
For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

[20] “Only don’t do two things to me,
then I will not hide myself from your face:
[21] withdraw your hand far from me,
and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
[22] Then call, and I will answer,
or let me speak, and you answer me.
[23] How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
[24] Why do you hide your face,
and consider me your enemy?
[25] Will you harass a driven leaf?
Will you pursue the dry stubble?
[26] For you write bitter things against me,
and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
[27] You also put my feet in the stocks,
and mark all my paths.
You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
[28] though I am decaying like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 14 ()

[1] “Man, who is born of a woman,
is of few days, and full of trouble.
[2] He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
[3] Do you open your eyes on such a one,
and bring me into judgment with you?
[4] Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
Not one.
[5] Seeing his days are determined,
the number of his months is with you,
and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
[6] Look away from him, that he may rest,
until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

[7] “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
that the tender branch of it will not cease.
[8] Though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stock dies in the ground,
[9] yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.
[10] But man dies, and is laid low.
Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
[11] As the waters fail from the sea,
and the river wastes and dries up,
[12] so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
nor be roused out of their sleep.

[13] “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
[14] If a man dies, will he live again?
I would wait all the days of my warfare,
until my release should come.
[15] You would call, and I would answer you.
You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
[16] But now you count my steps.
Don’t you watch over my sin?
[17] My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
You fasten up my iniquity.

[18] “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
The rock is removed out of its place.
[19] The waters wear the stones.
The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
So you destroy the hope of man.
[20] You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
You change his face, and send him away.
[21] His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
[22] But his flesh on him has pain,
and his soul within him mourns.”

Job 14:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Job 15 ()

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
[2] “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge,
and fill himself with the east wind?
[3] Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
or with speeches with which he can do no good?
[4] Yes, you do away with fear,
and hinder devotion before God.
[5] For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the language of the crafty.
[6] Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.
Yes, your own lips testify against you.

[7] “Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought out before the hills?
[8] Have you heard the secret counsel of God?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
[9] What do you know that we don’t know?
What do you understand which is not in us?
[10] With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
much older than your father.
[11] Are the consolations of God too small for you,
even the word that is gentle toward you?
[12] Why does your heart carry you away?
Why do your eyes flash,
[13] that you turn your spirit against God,
and let such words go out of your mouth?
[14] What is man, that he should be clean?
What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
[15] Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.
Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
[16] how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks iniquity like water!

[17] “I will show you, listen to me;
that which I have seen I will declare
[18] (which wise men have told by their fathers,
and have not hidden it;
[19] to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them):
[20] the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
[21] A sound of terrors is in his ears.
In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
[22] He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness.
He is waited for by the sword.
[23] He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
[24] Distress and anguish make him afraid.
They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
[25] Because he has stretched out his hand against God,
and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
[26] he runs at him with a stiff neck,
with the thick shields of his bucklers,
[27] because he has covered his face with his fatness,
and gathered fat on his thighs.
[28] He has lived in desolate cities,
in houses which no one inhabited,
which were ready to become heaps.
[29] He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue,
neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
[30] He will not depart out of darkness.
The flame will dry up his branches.
He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
[31] Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his reward.
[32] It will be accomplished before his time.
His branch will not be green.
[33] He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
[34] For the company of the godless will be barren,
and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
[35] They conceive mischief and produce iniquity.
Their heart prepares deceit.”