August 26th (Day 238) Bible Reading

Job 20:1-22:30
2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Psalm 40:11-17
Proverbs 22:2-4

 

Job 20:1  Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 

Job 20:2  Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 

Job 20:3  I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 

Job 20:4  Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 

Job 20:5  That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 

Job 20:6  Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 

Job 20:7  Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 

Job 20:8  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 

Job 20:9  The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. 

Job 20:10  His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 

Job 20:11  His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 

Job 20:12  Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 

Job 20:13  Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 

Job 20:14  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 

Job 20:15  He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 

Job 20:16  He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 

Job 20:17  He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 

Job 20:18  That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. 

Job 20:19  Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 

Job 20:20  Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 

Job 20:21  There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 

Job 20:22  In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 

Job 20:23  When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 

Job 20:24  He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 

Job 20:25  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. 

Job 20:26  All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. 

Job 20:27  The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. 

Job 20:28  The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 

Job 20:29  This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. 

 

Job 21:1  But Job answered and said, 

Job 21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 

Job 21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 

Job 21:4  As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 

Job 21:5  Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 

Job 21:6  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. 

Job 21:7  Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 

Job 21:8  Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 

Job 21:9  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 

Job 21:10  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 

Job 21:11  They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 

Job 21:12  They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 

Job 21:13  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 

Job 21:14  Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 

Job 21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 

Job 21:16  Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 

Job 21:17  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 

Job 21:18  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 

Job 21:19  God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 

Job 21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 

Job 21:21  For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? 

Job 21:22  Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. 

Job 21:23  One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 

Job 21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 

Job 21:25  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. 

Job 21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 

Job 21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 

Job 21:28  For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 

Job 21:29  Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 

Job 21:30  That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 

Job 21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 

Job 21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 

Job 21:33  The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. 

Job 21:34  How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? 

 

Job 22:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 

Job 22:2  Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 

Job 22:3  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect? 

Job 22:4  Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? 

Job 22:5  Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? 

Job 22:6  For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 

Job 22:7  Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 

Job 22:8  But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. 

Job 22:9  Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 

Job 22:10  Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; 

Job 22:11  Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. 

Job 22:12  Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 

Job 22:13  And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? 

Job 22:14  Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. 

Job 22:15  Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 

Job 22:16  Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 

Job 22:17  Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 

Job 22:18  Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 

Job 22:19  The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 

Job 22:20  Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. 

Job 22:21  Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 

Job 22:22  Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 

Job 22:23  If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. 

Job 22:24  Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 

Job 22:25  Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. 

Job 22:26  For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. 

Job 22:27  Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. 

Job 22:28  Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. 

Job 22:29  When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. 

Job 22:30  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. 

 

2Co 1:1  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: 

2Co 1:2  Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 

2Co 1:3  Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 

2Co 1:4  Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 

2Co 1:5  For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 

2Co 1:6  And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. 

2Co 1:7  And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. 

2Co 1:8  For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 

2Co 1:9  But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 

2Co 1:10  Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 

2Co 1:11  Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. 

 

Psa 40:11  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. 

Psa 40:12  For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. 

Psa 40:13  Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 

Psa 40:14  Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 

Psa 40:15  Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. 

Psa 40:16  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. 

Psa 40:17  But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. 

 

Pro 22:2  The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. 

Pro 22:3  A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. 

Pro 22:4  By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.