June 30, 2025, Job 13:1-28 13  “Behold, my eye has seen all this,      my ear has heard and understood it. 2  What you know, I also know;      I am not inferior to you. 3  But I would speak to the Almighty,      and I desire to argue my case with God. 4  As for you, you whitewash with lies;      worthless physicians are you all. 5  Oh that you would keep silent,      and it would be your wisdom! 6  Hear now my argument      and listen to the pleadings of my lips. 7  Will you speak falsely for God      and speak deceitfully for him? 8  Will you show partiality toward him?      Will you plead the case for God? 9  Will it be well with you when he searches you out?      Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a ...

June 29, 2025, Job 12:1-25 12  Then Job answered and said: 2  “No doubt 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.      Who does not know such things as these? 4  I am a laughingstock to my friends;      I, who called to God and he answered me,      a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. 5  In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;      it is ready for those whose feet slip. 6  The tents of robbers are at peace,      and those who provoke God are secure,      who bring their god in their hand. 7  “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;      the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; 8  or the ...

June 28, 2025, Job 11:1-20 11  Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: 2  “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,      and a man full of talk be judged right? 3  Should your babble silence men,      and when you mock, shall no one shame you? 4  For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,      and I am clean in God's eyes.’ 5  But oh, that God would speak      and open his lips to you, 6  and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!      For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves. 7  “Can you find out the deep things of God?      Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? 8  It is higher than heaven—what can you do?      Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? 9  Its measure is longer th...

June 27, 2025, Job 10:1-22 10  “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint;      I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2  I will say to God, Do not condemn me;      let me know why you contend against me. 3  Does it seem good to you to oppress,      to despise the work of your hands      and favor the designs of the wicked? 4  Have you eyes of flesh?      Do you see as man sees? 5  Are your days as the days of man,      or your years as a man's years, 6  that you seek out my iniquity      and search for my sin, 7  although you know that I am not guilty,      and there is none to deliver out of your hand? 8  Your hands fashioned and made me,      and now you have destroyed me ...

June 26, 2025, Job 9:1-35 9  Then Job answered and said: 2  “Truly I know that it is so:      But how can a man be in the right before God? 3  If one wished to contend with him,      one could not answer him once in a thousand times. 4  He is wise in heart and mighty in strength      —who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?— 5  he who removes mountains, and they know it not,      when he overturns them in his anger, 6  who shakes the earth out of its place,      and its pillars tremble; 7  who commands the sun, and it does not rise;      who seals up the stars; 8  who alone stretched out the heavens      and trampled the waves of the sea; 9  who made the Bear and Orion,      the Pleiades and the ch...

June 25, 2025, Job 8:1-22 8  Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2  “How long will you say these things,      and the words of your mouth be a great wind? 3  Does God pervert justice?      Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 4  If your children have sinned against him,      he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. 5  If you will seek God      and plead with the Almighty for mercy, 6  if you are pure and upright,      surely then he will rouse himself for you      and restore your rightful habitation. 7  And though your beginning was small,      your latter days will be very great. 8  “For inquire, please, of bygone ages,      and consider what the fathers have searched out. 9  For we are but of ye...