One Year Bible

Job 37:1-39:30

Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

1 “ At this my heart also pounds

and leaps from its place.

2 Listen closely to the thunder of His voice

and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

3 He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky

and sends it to the ends of the earth.

4 Then there comes a roaring sound;

He thunders with His majestic voice.

He does not restrain the lightning

when His voice resounds.

5 God thunders wondrously with His voice;

He does great things we cannot comprehend.

6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’

and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

7 He seals up the hand of every man,

so that all men may know His work.

8 The wild animals enter their lairs;

they settle down in their dens.

9 The tempest comes from its chamber,

and the cold from the driving north winds.

10 By the breath of God the ice is formed

and the watery expanses are frozen.

11 He loads the clouds with moisture;

He scatters His lightning through them.

12 They swirl about,

whirling at His direction,

accomplishing all that He commands

over the face of all the earth.

13 Whether for punishment or for His land,

He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

14 Listen to this, O Job;

stand still and consider the wonders of God.

15 Do you know how God dispatches the clouds

or makes the lightning flash?

16 Do you understand how the clouds float,

those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

17 You whose clothes get hot

when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies,

as strong as a mirror of bronze?

19 Teach us what we should say to Him;

we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

20 Should He be told that I want to speak?

Would a man ask to be swallowed up?

21 Now no one can gaze at the sun

when it is bright in the skies

after the wind has swept them clean.

22 Out of the north He comes in golden splendor;

awesome majesty surrounds Him.

23 The Almighty is beyond our reach;

He is exalted in power!

In His justice and great righteousness

He does not oppress.

24 Therefore, men fear Him,

for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”

The Lord Challenges Job

1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

2“Who is this who obscures My counsel

by words without knowledge?

3 Now brace yourself like a man;

I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!

Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 On what were its foundations set,

or who laid its cornerstone,

7 while the morning stars sang together

and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors

when it burst forth from the womb,

9 when I made the clouds its garment

and thick darkness its blanket,

10 when I fixed its boundaries

and set in place its bars and doors,

11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther;

here your proud waves must stop’?

12 In your days, have you commanded the morning

or assigned the dawn its place,

13 that it might spread to the ends of the earth

and shake the wicked out of it?

14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;

its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

15 Light is withheld from the wicked,

and their upraised arm is broken.

16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea

or walked in the trenches of the deep?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth?

Tell Me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the way to the home of light?

Do you know where darkness resides,

20 so you can lead it back to its border?

Do you know the paths to its home?

21 Surely you know, for you were already born!

And the number of your days is great!

22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow

or observed the storehouses of hail,

23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,

for the day of war and battle?

24 In which direction is the lightning dispersed,

or the east wind scattered over the earth?

25 Who cuts a channel for the flood

or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

26 to bring rain on a barren land,

on a desert where no man lives,

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland

and make it sprout with tender grass?

28 Does the rain have a father?

Who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb does the ice emerge?

Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

30 when the waters become hard as stone

and the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades

or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons

or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?

Can you set their dominion over the earth?

34 Can you command the clouds

so that a flood of water covers you?

35 Can you send the lightning bolts on their way?

Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who has put wisdom in the heart

or given understanding to the mind?

37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?

Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

38 when the dust hardens into a mass

and the clods of earth stick together?

39 Can you hunt the prey for a lioness

or satisfy the hunger of young lions

40 when they crouch in their dens

and lie in wait in the thicket?

41 Who provides food for the raven

when its young cry out to God

as they wander about for lack of food?’’

The Lord Speaks of His Creation

1 “ Do you know when mountain goats give birth?

Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

2 Can you count the months they are pregnant?

Do you know the time they give birth?

3 They crouch down and bring forth their young;

they deliver their newborn.

4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field;

they leave and do not return.

5 Who set the wild donkey free?

Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

6 I made the wilderness his home

and the salt flats his dwelling.

7 He scorns the tumult of the city

and never hears the shouts of a driver.

8 He roams the mountains for pasture,

searching for any green thing.

9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you?

Will he stay by your manger at night?

10 Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness?

Will he plow the valleys behind you?

11 Can you rely on his great strength?

Will you leave your hard work to him?

12 Can you trust him to bring in your grain

and gather it to your threshing floor?

13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,

but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground

and lets them warm in the sand.

15 She forgets that a foot may crush them,

or a wild animal may trample them.

16 She treats her young harshly, as if not her own,

with no concern that her labor was in vain.

17 For God has deprived her of wisdom;

He has not endowed her with understanding.

18 Yet when she proudly spreads her wings,

she laughs at the horse and its rider.

19 Do you give strength to the horse

or adorn his neck with a mane?

20 Do you make him leap like a locust,

striking terror with his proud snorting?

21 He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength;

he charges into battle.

22 He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing;

he does not turn back from the sword.

23 A quiver rattles at his side,

along with a flashing spear and lance.

24 Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance;

he cannot stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.

25 At the blast of the horn, he snorts with fervor.

He catches the scent of battle from afar,

the shouts of captains and the cry of war.

26 Does the hawk take flight by your understanding

and spread his wings toward the south?

27 Does the eagle soar at your command

and make his nest on high?

28 He dwells on a cliff and lodges there;

his stronghold is on a rocky crag.

29 From there he spies out food;

his eyes see it from afar.

30 His young ones feast on blood;

and where the slain are, there he is.”

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10

13 And in keeping with what is written, “I believed, therefore I have spoken,” we who have the same spirit of faith also believe and therefore speak, 14knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence . 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow, to the glory of God.

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

6 Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. 7For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9So we aspire to please Him, whether we are at home in this body or away from it. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

Psalm 44:9-26

9 But You have rejected and humbled us;

You no longer go forth with our armies.

10 You have made us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us have plundered us.

11 You have given us up as sheep to be devoured;

You have scattered us among the nations.

12 You sell Your people for nothing;

no profit do You gain from their sale.

13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,

a mockery and derision to those around us.

14 You have made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock among the peoples.

15 All day long my disgrace is before me,

and shame has covered my face,

16 at the voice of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

17 All this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten You

or betrayed Your covenant.

18 Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from Your path.

19 But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals;

You have covered us with deepest darkness.

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

21 would not God have discovered,

since He knows the secrets of the heart?

22 Yet for Your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping?

Arise! Do not reject us forever.

24 Why do You hide Your face

and forget our affliction and oppression?

25 For our soul has sunk to the dust;

our bodies cling to the earth.

26 Rise up; be our help!

Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Proverbs 22:13

13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside!

I will be slain in the streets!”

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One Year Bible

Job 37:1-39:30

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10

Psalm 44:9-26

Proverbs 22:13