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  Bible Reading for January 24  
    
  Job 28  
  [1] Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they  
  fine it.  
  [2] Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.  
  [3]  
  He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones  
  of  
  darkness, and the shadow of death. [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. [5] As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under  
  it  
  is turned up as it were fire.  
  [6] The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.  
  [7]  
  There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not  
  seen:  
  [8] The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.  
  [9] He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by  
  the roots.  
  [10] He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious  
  thing.  
  [11] He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid  
  bringeth he forth to light.  
  [12] But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of  
  understanding?  
  [13] Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of  
  the  
  living.  
  [14] The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.  
  [15] It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the  
  price thereof.  
  [16] It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or  
  the sapphire.  
  [17] The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall  
  not be for jewels of fine gold.  
  [18] No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of  
  wisdom  
  is above rubies.  
  [19] The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued  
  with  
  pure gold.  
  [20] Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?  
  [21]  
  Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls  
  of  
  the air.  
  [22] Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our  
  ears.  
  [23] God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.  
  [24]  
  For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;  
  [25] To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by  
  measure.  
  [26] When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the  
  thunder:  
  [27] Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched  
  it  
  out.  
  [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, [2] Oh that I were as in  
  months past, as in the days when God preserved me; [3] When his candle  
  shined  
  upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;  
  [4] As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my  
  tabernacle;  
  [5] When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; [6]  
  When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of  
  oil;  
  [7] When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in  
  the street!  
  [8] The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood  
  up.  
  [9] The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. [10]  
  The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their  
  mouth.  
  [11] When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it  
  gave witness to me:  
  [12] Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him  
  that  
  had none to help him.  
  [13] The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused  
  the widow's heart to sing for joy.  
  [14] I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe  
  and  
  a diadem.  
  [15] I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. [16] I was a  
  father  
  to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.  
  [17] And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his  
  teeth.  
  [18] Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as  
  the  
  sand.  
  [19] My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my  
  branch.  
  [20] My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. [21] Unto  
  me  
  men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. [22] After my  
  words  
  they spake 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 the light of my  
  countenance they cast not down.  
  [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. [2] Yea, whereto  
  might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?  
  [3] For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in  
  former time desolate and waste.  
  [4] Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. [5]  
  They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a  
  thief;)  
  [6] To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the  
  rocks.  
  [7] Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered  
  together.  
  [8] They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler  
  than the earth.  
  [9] And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. [10] They abhor me,  
  they  
  flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. [11] Because he hath  
  loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before  
  me.  
  [12] Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they  
  raise  
  up against me the ways of their destruction. [13] They mar my path, they set  
  forward my calamity, they have no helper. [14] They came upon me as a wide  
  breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.  
  [15] Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my  
  welfare passeth away as a cloud.  
  [16] And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have  
  taken  
  hold upon me.  
  [17] My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no  
  rest.  
  [18] By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me  
  about as the collar of my coat.  
  [19] He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.  
  [20]  
  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest  
  me  
  not.  
  [21] Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself  
  against me.  
  [22] Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and  
  dissolvest my substance.  
  [23] For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed  
  for all living.  
  [24] Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry  
  in  
  his destruction.  
  [25] Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for  
  the poor?  
  [26] When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for  
  light, there came darkness.  
  [27] My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.  
  [28] I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the  
  congregation.  
  [29] I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. [30] My skin is  
  black  
  upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. [31] My harp also is turned to  
  mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.  
    
  Job 31  
  [1] I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?  
  [2]  
  For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the  
  Almighty from on high?  
  [3] Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the  
  workers  
  of iniquity?  
  [4] Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? [5] If I have walked  
  with  
  vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; [6] Let me be weighed in an  
  even  
  balance, that God may know mine integrity. [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; [8] Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my  
  offspring  
  be rooted out.  
  [9] If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at  
  my  
  neighbour's door;  
  [10] Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.  
  [11] For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by  
  the judges.  
  [12] For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all  
  mine increase.  
  [13] If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when  
  they contended with me;  
  [14] What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what  
  shall  
  I answer him?  
  [15] Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion  
  us  
  in the womb?  
  [16] If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes  
  of  
  the widow to fail;  
  [17] Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten  
  thereof;  
  [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;) [19] If I have seen any perish for  
  want of clothing, or any poor without covering;  
  [20] If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the  
  fleece of my sheep;  
  [21] If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help  
  in  
  the gate:  
  [22] Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken  
  from the bone.  
  [23] For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his  
  highness I could not endure.  
  [24] If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my  
  confidence;  
  [25] If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had  
  gotten much;  
  [26] If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;  
  [27] And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my  
  hand:  
  [28] This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should  
  have  
  denied the God that is above.  
  [29] If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up  
  myself when evil found him:  
  [30] Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.  
  [31] If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we  
  cannot be satisfied.  
  [32] The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the  
  traveller.  
  [33] If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my  
  bosom:  
  [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? [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. [36] Surely I would take it upon my shoulder,  
  and bind it as a crown to me. [37] I would declare unto him the number of my  
  steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.  
  [38] If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof  
  complain;  
  [39] If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the  
  owners thereof to lose their life:  
  [40] Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The  
  words of Job are ended.  
    
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