52 Week Bible Reading Plan Bible-Reading.com > Bible Reading > The Plan What's New? (Aug 8, 2000) [ Today's Reading | Calendar | The Plan | FAQ | Wedding Readings ] Can this Bible-based diet help you reach your goals?

52 Week Bible Reading Plan

Job 29

1

And Job continued his parable and said,

2

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

3

When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;

4

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

5

When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

6

When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! ...

7

When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

8

The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;

9

Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

10

The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

11

When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;

12

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

13

The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

14

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

15

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;

16

I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

17

And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

18

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

19

My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

20

My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

21

Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

22

After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

23

And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

24

[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

25

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

Job 30

1

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

2

Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

3

Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

4

They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

5

They are driven forth from among [men] -- they cry after them as after a thief --

6

To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:

7

They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

8

Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

9

And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.

10

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

11

For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

12

At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

13

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

14

They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

15

Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

16

And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

17

The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

18

By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

19

He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

20

I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.

21

Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.

22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

23

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

24

Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.

25

Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

26

For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

27

My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

28

I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

29

I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

30

My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

31

My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.

line 364.

DISCLOSURE: We may earn a commission when you use one of our coupons/links to make a purchase.

Privacy Statement - Broken Links / Suggestions / Comments Copyright © 1995-2020 Bible-Reading.com - Page last modified E-mail to Michael