CIL Daily Bible Readings

CIL Daily Bible Readings

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  • Micah 3,4
    And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
    Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
    Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
    Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
    Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
    Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
    Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
    But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
    Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
    They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
    The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
    But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
    And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
    And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
    But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
    For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
    In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
    And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
    And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
    Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
    Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
    Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
    But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheav
    6 min
  • Hebrews 13
    Let brotherly love continue.
    Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
    Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
    Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
    Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
    So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
    Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
    Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
    Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
    We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
    For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
    Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
    Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
    For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
    By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
    But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
    Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
    Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
    But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
    Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
    Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
    And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
    Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
    Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
    Grace be with you all. Amen.
    4 min
  • Hebrews 12
    Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
    Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
    For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
    Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
    And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
    For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
    If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
    But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
    Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
    For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
    Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
    Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
    And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
    Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
    Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
    Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
    For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
    For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
    And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
    (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
    And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
    But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
    To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
    And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.
    See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
    Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
    And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
    Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
    For our God is a consuming fire.
    5 min
  • Job 6,7
    But Job answered and said,
    Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
    For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
    For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
    Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
    Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
    The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
    Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
    Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
    Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
    What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
    Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
    Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
    To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
    My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
    Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
    What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
    The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
    The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
    They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
    For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
    Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
    Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
    Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
    How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
    Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
    Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
    Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
    Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
    Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
    Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
    As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
    So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
    When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
    My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
    My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
    O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
    The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
    As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
    He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
    Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
    Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
    When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
    Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
    So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
    I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
    What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set
    6 min
  • Micah 2
    Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
    And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
    Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
    In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
    Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
    Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
    O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
    Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
    The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
    Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
    If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
    I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
    The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
    3 min
  • Job 5
    Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
    For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
    I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
    His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
    Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
    Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
    Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
    I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
    Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
    Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
    To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
    He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
    He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
    They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
    But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
    So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
    Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
    For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
    He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
    In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
    Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
    At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
    For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
    And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
    Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
    Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
    Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
    3 min
  • Hebrews 11
    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
    For by it the elders obtained a good report.
    Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
    By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
    By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
    But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
    By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
    By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
    By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
    For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
    Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
    Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
    These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
    For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
    And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
    But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
    By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
    Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
    Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
    By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
    By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
    By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
    By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
    By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
    Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
    Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
    By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
    Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
    By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
    By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
    By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
    And what
    7 min
  • Micah 1
    The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
    Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
    For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
    And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
    For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
    Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
    And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
    Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
    For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
    Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
    Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
    For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
    O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
    Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.
    Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
    Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
    4 min
  • Hebrews 10
    For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
    For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
    But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
    For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
    Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
    In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
    Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
    Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
    Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
    And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
    But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
    From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
    Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
    This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
    And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
    Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
    Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
    By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
    And having an high priest over the house of God;
    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
    Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
    And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
    Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
    For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
    But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
    He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
    Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
    For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
    It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
    But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
    Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
    For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
    Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
    For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye mig
    6 min
  • Job 3,4
    After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
    And Job spake, and said,
    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
    Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
    Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
    As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
    Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
    Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
    Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
    Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
    Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
    For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
    With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
    Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
    Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
    There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
    The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
    Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
    Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
    Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
    For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
    For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
    I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
    Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
    If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
    Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
    Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
    But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
    Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
    Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
    Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
    By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
    The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
    The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
    Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
    In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
    Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
    Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
    It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
    Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
    Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
    How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
    They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
    Doth not their excel
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