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Bible Reading for June 13

Job Chapter 40

1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that
reproveth God, let him answer it.

3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon
my mouth.

5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will
proceed no further.

6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare
thou unto me.

8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou
mayest be righteous?

9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with
glory and beauty.

11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is
proud, and abase him.

12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down
the wicked in their place.

13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save
thee.

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel
of his belly.

17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his
sword to approach unto him.

20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of
the field play.

21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he
can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Job Chapter 41

1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord
which thou lettest down?

2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a
thorn?

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words
unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant
for ever?

5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among
the merchants?

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at
the sight of him?

10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand
before me?

11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under
the whole heaven is mine.

12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with
his double bridle?

14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot
be sundered.

18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids
of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in
themselves; they cannot be moved.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the
nether millstone.

25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of
breakings they purify themselves.

26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart,
nor the habergeon.

27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon
the mire.

31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot
of ointment.

32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be
hoary.

33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of
pride.

Job Chapter 42

1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be
withholden from thee.

3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I
uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew
not.

4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and
declare thou unto me.

5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth
thee.

6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job,
the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee,
and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that
is right, as my servant Job hath.

8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to
my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my
servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with
you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which
is right, like my servant Job.

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the
Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD
also accepted Job.

10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his
friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and
all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread
with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all
the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a
piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning:
for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a
thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the
second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of
Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons,
and his sons' sons, even four generations.

17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

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