Wednesday 2 October 2030

1Then Job answered,

2“Truly I know that it is so,but how can man be just with God?3If he is pleased to contend with him,he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?5He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,when he overturns them in his anger.6He shakes the earth out of its place.Its pillars tremble.7He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,and seals up the stars.8He alone stretches out the heavens,and treads on the waves of the sea.9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,and the rooms of the south.10He does great things past finding out;yes, marvelous things without number.11Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.12Behold, he snatches away.Who can hinder him?Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’· · · verse 13 is not read14How much less will I answer him,and choose my words to argue with him?15Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.I would make supplication to my judge.16If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

10My eyes are dim from grief.I have called on you daily, Lord.I have spread out my hands to you.11Do you show wonders to the dead?Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?

12Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?Or your faithfulness in Destruction?13Are your wonders made known in the dark?Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

14But to you, Lord, I have cried.In the morning, my prayer comes before you.15Lord, why do you reject my soul?Why do you hide your face from me?

1In that hour the disciples came to Jesus,saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

2Jesus called a little child to himself,and set him in the middle of them3and said, “Most certainly I tell you,unless you turn and become as little children,you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.5Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,· · · verses 6–9 are not read10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones,for I tell youthat in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.