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Job’s Fifth Speech Then Job answered and said, 2 “I have heard many things like these; all of you are ?miserable comforters?. 3 Is there a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? 4 I myself also could talk as you, if ?you were in my place?; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head….
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 108:1-6
Psa 108:1 My heart is steadfast, O God!
I will sing and make melody with all my being!
Psa 108:2 Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
Psa 108:3 I will give thanks to you, O LORD,
among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
Psa 108:4 For your steadfast love is great above the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Psa 108:5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!
Psa 108:6 That your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer me!
Reading for Monday September 16th Job 16
Job’s Fifth Speech
16 Then Job answered and said,
2 “I have heard many things like these;
all of you are ?miserable comforters?.
3 Is there a limit to windy words?
What provokes you that you answer?
4 I myself also could talk as you,
if ?you were in my place?;
I could join against you with words,
and I could shake at you with my head.
5 I could encourage you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.
6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved;
and if I cease, how much will leave me?
7 “Surely now he has worn me out;
you have devastated all my company.
8 Thus you shriveled me up;
it became a witness.
And my leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me;
he gnashed at me with his teeth.
My foe sharpens his eyes against me.
10 They gaped at me with their mouth;
they struck my cheeks with disgrace;
they have massed themselves together against me.
11 God delivers me to an evil one,
and he casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 “I was at ease, then he broke me in two,
and he seized me by my neck;
then he shattered me
and set me up as a target for him.
13 His archers surround me;
he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion;
he pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breached me ?breach upon breach?;
he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 “I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and I have inserted ?my pride? in the dust.
16 My face is red because of weeping,
and deep shadows are on my eyelids,
17 ?although? violence is not on my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, you should not cover my blood,
and let there be no place for my cry for help.
19 So now look, my witness is in the heavens,
and he who vouches for me is in the heights.
20 My friends scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 and it argues for a mortal with God,
and as ?a human? for his friend.
22 Indeed, after ?a few years? have come,
then I will go the way from which I will not return.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Almighty God, You gave Your servant Cyprian boldness to confess the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, before the rulers of this world and courage to die for the faith he proclaimed. Give us strength always to be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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.
