Job 40:1-42:17 1 Then the
Lord answered Job:
2 “Will the one who contends
with the Almighty correct him?
Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
3 Then Job answered the
Lord:
4 “Indeed, I am completely unworthy
– how could I reply to you? I put
my hand over my mouth to silence myself.
5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
6 Then the
Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
7 “Get ready for a difficult task
like a man. I will question you and you will inform me!
8 Would you indeed annul
my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s,
and can you thunder with a voice like his?
10 Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor!
11 Scatter abroad
the abundance
of your anger. Look at every proud man
and bring him low;
12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!
13 Hide them in the dust
together, imprison
them
in the grave.
14 Then I myself will acknowledge
to you that your own right hand can save you.
15 “Look now at Behemoth,
which I made as
I made you; it eats grass like the ox.
16 Look
at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.
17 It makes its tail stiff
like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.
19 It ranks first among the works of God,
the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.
20 For the hills bring it food,
where all the wild animals play.
21 Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.
22 The lotus trees conceal it in their
shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.
23 If the river rages,
it is not disturbed, it is secure,
though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.
24 Can anyone catch it by its eyes,
or pierce its nose with a snare?
1 “Can you pull in
Leviathan with a hook, and tie down
its tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 Will it make numerous supplications to you,
will it speak to you with tender words?
4 Will it make a pact
with you, so you could take it
as your slave for life?
5 Can you play
with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash
for your girls?
6 Will partners
bargain
for it? Will they divide it up
among the merchants?
7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay your hand on it, you will remember
the fight, and you will never do it again!
9 See, his expectation is wrong,
he is laid low even at the sight of it.
10 Is it not fierce
when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
11 (Who has confronted
me that I should repay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me!)
12 I will not keep silent about its limbs, and the extent of its might, and the grace of its arrangement.
13 Who can uncover its outer covering?
Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?
14 Who can open the doors of its mouth?
Its teeth all around are fearsome.
15 Its back
has rows of shields, shut up closely
together as with a seal;
16 each one is so close to the next
that no air can come between them.
17 They lock tightly together, one to the next;
they cling together and cannot be separated.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow
of dawn.
19 Out of its mouth go flames,
sparks of fire shoot forth!
20 Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning
rushes.
21 Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.
22 Strength lodges in its neck, and despair
runs before it.
23 The folds
of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.
24 Its heart
is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.
26 Whoever strikes it with a sword
will have no effect,
nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
27 It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
28 Arrows
do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.
29 A club is counted
as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its underparts
are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.
33 The likes of it is not on earth, a creature
without fear.
34 It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”
1 Then Job answered the
Lord:
2 “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;
3 you asked,
‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But
I have declared without understanding
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 You said,
‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself,
and I repent in dust and ashes!
7 After the
Lord had spoken these things to Job, he
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up
against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right,
as my servant Job has.
8 So now take
seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede
for you, and I will respect him,
so that I do not deal with you
according to your folly,
because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
9 So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the
Lord had told them; and the
Lord had respect for Job.
10 So the
Lord restored what Job had lost
after he prayed for his friends,
and the
Lord doubled
all that had belonged to Job.
11 So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined
with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the
Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver
and a gold ring.
12 So the
Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
13 And he also had seven sons
and three daughters.
14 The first daughter he named Jemimah,
the second Keziah,
and the third Keren-Happuch.
15 Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers.
16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 And so Job died, old and full of days.
Context (NET) 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 11 Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord,
we try to persuade
people,
but we are well known
to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.
12 We are not trying to commend
ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us,
so that you may be able to answer those who take pride
in outward appearance
and not in what is in the heart.
13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
14 For the love of Christ
controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ
died for all; therefore all have died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
16 So then from now on we acknowledge
no one from an outward human point of view.
Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view,
now we do not know him in that way any longer.
17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away
– look, what is new
has come!
18 And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us
the message of reconciliation.
20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea
through us. We plead with you
on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”
21 God
made the one who did not know sin
to be sin for us, so that in him
we would become the righteousness of God.
Context (NET) Psalm 45:1-17 1 For the music director; according to the tune of “Lilies;”
by the Korahites, a well-written poem,
a love song. My heart is stirred by a beautiful song.
I say, “I have composed this special song
for the king; my tongue is as skilled as the stylus of an experienced scribe.”
2 You are the most handsome of all men!
You speak in an impressive and fitting manner!
For this reason
God grants you continual blessings.
3 Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior!
Appear in your majestic splendor!
4 Appear in your majesty and be victorious!
Ride forth for the sake of what is right,
on behalf of justice!
Then your right hand will accomplish mighty acts!
5 Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.
6 Your throne,
O God, is permanent.
The scepter
of your kingdom is a scepter of justice.
7 You love
justice and hate evil.
For this reason God, your God
has anointed you
with the oil of joy,
elevating you above your companions.
8 All your garments are perfumed with
myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From the luxurious palaces
comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy.
9 Princesses
are among your honored guests,
your bride
stands at your right hand, wearing jewelry made with gold from Ophir.
10 Listen, O princess!
Observe and pay attention!
Forget your homeland
and your family!
11 Then
the king will be attracted by
your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit
to him!
12 Rich people from Tyre
will seek your favor by bringing a gift.
13 The princess
looks absolutely magnificent,
decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold.
14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.
15 They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace.
16 Your
sons will carry
on the dynasty of your ancestors;
you will make them princes throughout the land.
17 I will proclaim your greatness through the coming years,
then the nations will praise you
forever.
Context (NET) Proverbs 22:14 14 The mouth
of an adulteress is like
a deep pit;
the one against whom the
Lord is angry
will fall into it.
Context (NET)
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