August 28th (Day 240) Bible Reading

Job 28:1-30:31
2 Corinthians 2:12-17
Psalm 42:1-11
Proverbs 22:7

 

Job 28:1  Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 

Job 28:2  Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 

Job 28:3  He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 

Job 28:4  The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 

Job 28:5  As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. 

Job 28:6  The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. 

Job 28:7  There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: 

Job 28:8  The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. 

Job 28:9  He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. 

Job 28:10  He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. 

Job 28:11  He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. 

Job 28:12  But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? 

Job 28:13  Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. 

Job 28:14  The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me. 

Job 28:15  It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. 

Job 28:16  It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. 

Job 28:17  The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. 

Job 28:18  No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. 

Job 28:19  The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. 

Job 28:20  Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 

Job 28:21  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 

Job 28:22  Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 

Job 28:23  God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 

Job 28:24  For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 

Job 28:25  To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. 

Job 28:26  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: 

Job 28:27  Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. 

Job 28:28  And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. 

 

Job 29:1  Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 

Job 29:2  Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 

Job 29:3  When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 

Job 29:4  As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 

Job 29:5  When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 

Job 29:6  When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; 

Job 29:7  When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 

Job 29:8  The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 

Job 29:9  The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 

Job 29:10  The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 

Job 29:11  When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 

Job 29:12  Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 

Job 29:13  The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 

Job 29:14  I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 

Job 29:15  I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 

Job 29:16  I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 

Job 29:17  And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 

Job 29:18  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 

Job 29:19  My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 

Job 29:20  My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 

Job 29:21  Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 

Job 29:22  After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 

Job 29:23  And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 

Job 29:24  If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 

Job 29:25  I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. 

 

Job 30:1  But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 

Job 30:2  Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 

Job 30:3  For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 

Job 30:4  Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 

Job 30:5  They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) 

Job 30:6  To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 

Job 30:7  Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. 

Job 30:8  They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 

Job 30:9  And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. 

Job 30:10  They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. 

Job 30:11  Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. 

Job 30:12  Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. 

Job 30:13  They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. 

Job 30:14  They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. 

Job 30:15  Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 

Job 30:16  And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 

Job 30:17  My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 

Job 30:18  By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 

Job 30:19  He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 

Job 30:20  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. 

Job 30:21  Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. 

Job 30:22  Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. 

Job 30:23  For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 

Job 30:24  Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. 

Job 30:25  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? 

Job 30:26  When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. 

Job 30:27  My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. 

Job 30:28  I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 

Job 30:29  I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. 

Job 30:30  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. 

Job 30:31  My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. 

 

2Co 2:12  Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 

2Co 2:13  I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 

2Co 2:14  Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 

2Co 2:15  For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 

2Co 2:16  To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? 

2Co 2:17  For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 

 

Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 

Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 

Psa 42:3  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 

Psa 42:4  When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 

Psa 42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. 

Psa 42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 

Psa 42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 

Psa 42:8  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 

Psa 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 

Psa 42:10  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 

Psa 42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 

 

Pro 22:7  The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.