August 29th (Day 241) Bible Reading

Job 31:1-33:33
2 Corinthians 3:1-18
Psalm 43:1-5
Proverbs 22:8-9

 

Job 31:1  I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 

Job 31:2  For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 

Job 31:3  Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 

Job 31:4  Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 

Job 31:5  If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 

Job 31:6  Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 

Job 31:7  If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; 

Job 31:8  Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 

Job 31:9  If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 

Job 31:10  Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 

Job 31:11  For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 

Job 31:12  For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 

Job 31:13  If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 

Job 31:14  What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? 

Job 31:15  Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? 

Job 31:16  If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 

Job 31:17  Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; 

Job 31:18  (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) 

Job 31:19  If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 

Job 31:20  If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 

Job 31:21  If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 

Job 31:22  Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 

Job 31:23  For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. 

Job 31:24  If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 

Job 31:25  If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 

Job 31:26  If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 

Job 31:27  And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 

Job 31:28  This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 

Job 31:29  If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 

Job 31:30  Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. 

Job 31:31  If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. 

Job 31:32  The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. 

Job 31:33  If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: 

Job 31:34  Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door? 

Job 31:35  Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. 

Job 31:36  Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. 

Job 31:37  I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. 

Job 31:38  If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; 

Job 31:39  If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 

Job 31:40  Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. 

 

Job 32:1  So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 

Job 32:2  Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. 

Job 32:3  Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. 

Job 32:4  Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. 

Job 32:5  When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. 

Job 32:6  And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. 

Job 32:7  I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. 

Job 32:8  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 

Job 32:9  Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. 

Job 32:10  Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. 

Job 32:11  Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say. 

Job 32:12  Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words: 

Job 32:13  Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. 

Job 32:14  Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches. 

Job 32:15  They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 

Job 32:16  When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 

Job 32:17  I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. 

Job 32:18  For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 

Job 32:19  Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 

Job 32:20  I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. 

Job 32:21  Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. 

Job 32:22  For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away. 

 

Job 33:1  Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. 

Job 33:2  Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. 

Job 33:3  My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly. 

Job 33:4  The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. 

Job 33:5  If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up. 

Job 33:6  Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. 

Job 33:7  Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. 

Job 33:8  Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, 

Job 33:9  I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. 

Job 33:10  Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, 

Job 33:11  He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. 

Job 33:12  Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. 

Job 33:13  Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. 

Job 33:14  For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. 

Job 33:15  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 

Job 33:16  Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 

Job 33:17  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. 

Job 33:18  He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. 

Job 33:19  He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 

Job 33:20  So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 

Job 33:21  His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 

Job 33:22  Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 

Job 33:23  If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: 

Job 33:24  Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. 

Job 33:25  His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: 

Job 33:26  He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. 

Job 33:27  He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 

Job 33:28  He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. 

Job 33:29  Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, 

Job 33:30  To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. 

Job 33:31  Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. 

Job 33:32  If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. 

Job 33:33  If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom. 

 

2Co 3:1  Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 

2Co 3:2  Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 

2Co 3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 

2Co 3:4  And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 

2Co 3:5  Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 

2Co 3:6  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

2Co 3:7  But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 

2Co 3:8  How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 

2Co 3:9  For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 

2Co 3:10  For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 

2Co 3:11  For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 

2Co 3:12  Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 

2Co 3:13  And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 

2Co 3:14  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 

2Co 3:15  But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 

2Co 3:16  Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 

2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 

2Co 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 

 

Psa 43:1  Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 

Psa 43:2  For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 

Psa 43:3  O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 

Psa 43:4  Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. 

Psa 43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 

 

Pro 22:8  He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. 

Pro 22:9  He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.