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Yahweh Interrogates Job 4 “Where were you at my laying the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding. 5 Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched the measuring line upon it? 6 On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 when the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Or who shut the sea in with doors at its bursting, when it went out of the womb,…
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 90:7-17
Psa 90:7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
Psa 90:8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Psa 90:9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
Psa 90:10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Psa 90:11 Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?
Psa 90:12 So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psa 90:13 Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
Psa 90:14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psa 90:15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
and for as many years as we have seen evil.
Psa 90:16 Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
Psa 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!
Reading for Wednesday October 30th Job 38:4-20
Yahweh Interrogates Job
4 “Where were you at my laying the foundation of the earth?
Tell me, if you possess understanding.
5 Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know.
Or who stretched the measuring line upon it?
6 On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 when the morning stars were singing together
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 “Or who shut the sea in with doors
at its bursting, when it went out of the womb,
9 at my making the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,
10 and I prescribed my rule for it,
and I set bars and doors,
11 and I said, ‘You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further,
and here it will set a boundary ?for your proud surging waves?’?
12 “Have you ?ever in your life? commanded the morning?
Have you made the dawn know its place,
13 to take hold of the earth’s skirts
so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?
14 It is changed like clay under a seal,
and they appear like a garment.
15 And their light is withheld from the wicked,
and their uplifted arm is broken.
16 “Have you entered into the sea’s sources?
Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow?
18 Have you considered closely the earth’s vast expanse?
Declare it, if you know all of it.
19 “Where then is the way where the light dwells?
And where then is its place,
20 that you may take it to its territory,
and that you might discern the paths to its home?
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord God, heavenly Father, since we cannot stand before You relying on anything we have done, help us trust in Your abiding grace and live according to Your Word; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us to do Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
