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Today's Bible Reading :: Job 5 - 7 (KJV)

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Job 5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:1 - Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:2 - For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:3 - I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:4 - His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:5 - Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:8 - I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:9 - Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:11 - To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:13 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:16 - So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:17 - Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:18 - For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 - Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:22 - At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:23 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:26 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:27 - Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Job 6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:1 - But Job answered and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:3 - For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:4 - For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:5 - Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:8 - Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:9 - Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:10 - Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:11 - What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:12 - Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 - Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14 - To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:15 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:16 - Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:17 - What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18 - The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:19 - The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:20 - They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:21 - For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:22 - Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:23 - Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:24 - Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:25 - How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:26 - Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:27 - Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:28 - Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:29 - Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:30 - Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Job 7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:4 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 - My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:6 - My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:7 - O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:8 - The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9 - As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:10 - He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 - Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:14 - Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:17 - What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19 - How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 - And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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