Wednesday 1 October 2014

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?

57As they went on the way,a certain man said to him,“I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

58Jesus said to him,“The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests,but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

59He said to another, “Follow me!”

But he said, “Lord,allow me first to go and bury my father.”

60But Jesus said to him,“Leave the dead to bury their own dead,but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

61Another also said,“I want to follow you,Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to thosewho are at my house.”

62But Jesus said to him,“No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back,is fit for God’s Kingdom.”