Job 42    

Job 42:1 Then Job answered and said to Yahveh:

Job 42:2 I know that you can do anything, and no plan of yours can be thwarted.

Job 42:3 You asked, “Who is this who conceals my counsel with ignorance?” Surely, I spoke about things I did not understand, things too wondrous for me to know.

Job 42:4 You said, “Listen now, and I will speak. When I question you, you will inform me.”

Job 42:5 I had heard what my ears could listen to about you, but now my eyes have seen you.

Job 42:6 Therefore, I reject my words and regret them; I am dust and ashes.

Job 42:7 After Yahveh had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:8 Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your stupidity deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”

Job 42:9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as Yahveh had told them, and Yahveh accepted Job’s prayer.

Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, Yahveh restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.

Job 42:11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and dined with him in his house. They sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the adversity Yahveh had brought on him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold earring.

Job 42:12 So Yahveh blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.

Job 42:13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14 He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

Job 42:15 No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.

Job 42:16 Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Job 42:17 Then Job died, old and full of days.  

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, August 8, 2016
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Job 41

Job 41:1 Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?

Job 41:2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Job 41:3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?

Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever?

Job 41:5 Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?

Job 41:6 Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

Job 41:8 Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Job 41:9 Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?

Job 41:10 No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against me?

Job 41:11 Who confronted me, that I should repay him? Everything under the sky belongs to me.

Job 41:12 I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions.

Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

Job 41:14 Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

Job 41:15 His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.

Job 41:16 One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.

Job 41:17 They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated.

Job 41:18 His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Job 41:19 Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out!

Job 41:20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

Job 41:21 His throat sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.

Job 41:22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him.

Job 41:23 The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable.

Job 41:24 His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

Job 41:25 When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.

Job 41:26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

Job 41:27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.

Job 41:29 A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

Job 41:30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

Job 41:32 He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair!

Job 41:33 He has no equal on the land– a creature devoid of fear!

Job 41:34 He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Sunday, August 7, 2016
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Job 40

Job 40:1 Yahveh answered Job and said:

Job 40:2 Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who argues with God answer.

Job 40:3 Then Job answered Yahveh:

Job 40:4 I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I place my hand over my mouth.

Job 40:5 I have spoken once, and I will not reply; twice, but now I can add nothing.

Job 40:6 Then Yahveh answered Job from the whirlwind:

Job 40:7 Get ready to answer me like a healthy man; When I question you, you will inform me.

Job 40:8 Would you really challenge my justice? Would you declare me guilty to justify yourself?

Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his?

Job 40:10 Adorn yourself with majesty and splendor and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

Job 40:11 Pour out your raging anger; look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Job 40:12 Look on every proud person and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Job 40:13 Hide them together in the dust; imprison them in the grave.

Job 40:14 Then I will confess to you that your own right hand can deliver you.

Job 40:15 Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like cattle.

Job 40:16 Look at the strength of his back and the power in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:17 He stiffens his tail like a cedar tree; the tendons of his thighs are woven firmly together.

Job 40:18 His bones are bronze tubes; his limbs are like iron rods.

Job 40:19 He is the first of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Job 40:20 The hills yield food for him, while all sorts of wild animals play there.

Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus plants, hiding in the protection of marshy reeds.

Job 40:22 Lotus plants cover him with their shade; the willows by the brook surround him.

Job 40:23 Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains confident, even if the Jordan surges up to his mouth.

Job 40:24 Can anyone capture him while he looks on, or pierce his nose with snares?

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Saturday, August 6, 2016
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Job 39 

Job 39:1 Do you know the time mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the deer in labor?

Job 39:2 Can you count the months they are pregnant so you can know the time they give birth?

Job 39:3 They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn.

Job 39:4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.

Job 39:5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its bonds?

Job 39:6 I made the desert its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Job 39:7 It avoids the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.

Job 39:8 It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green.

Job 39:9 Would the wild ox be willing to work for you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

Job 39:10 Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness? Will it plow the valleys behind you?

Job 39:11 Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work?

Job 39:12 Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?

Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

Job 39:14 She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand.

Job 39:15 She forgets that a foot may crush them or that some wild animal may trample them.

Job 39:16 She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own, with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Job 39:17 You see, God has deprived her of wisdom; he has not endowed her with insight.

Job 39:18 When she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

Job 39:19 Do you give strength to the horse? Do you adorn his neck with a mane?

Job 39:20 Do you make him leap like a locust? His proud snorting fills one with terror.

Job 39:21 He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.

Job 39:22 He laughs at fear since he is afraid of nothing; he does not run from the sword.

Job 39:23 A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and a javelin.

Job 39:24 He chews up the ground with trembling rage; he cannot stand still at the trumpet’s sound.

Job 39:25 When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly. He smells the battle from a distance; he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.

Job 39:26 Does the hawk take flight by your insight and spread its wings to the south?

Job 39:27 Does the eagle soar at your command and make its nest high?

Job 39:28 It lives on a cliff where it spends the night; its stronghold is on a rocky crag.

Job 39:29 From there it searches for prey; its eyes penetrate the distance.

Job 39:30 Its brood gulps down blood, and where the slain are, it is there.

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Job 38

Job 38:1 Then Yahveh answered Job from the whirlwind. He said:

Job 38:2 Who is this who obscures my counsel with ignorant words?

Job 38:3 Get ready to answer me like a healthy man; when I question you, you will inform me.

Job 38:4 Where were you when I established the land? Tell me if you have insight.

Job 38:5 Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly, you know! Or, who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:6 What supports its bases? Or who laid its cornerstone

Job 38:7 while the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,

Job 38:9 when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10 when I determined its boundaries and put its bars and doors in place,

Job 38:11 when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here?”

Job 38:12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13 so it may seize the edges of the land and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14 The land is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

Job 38:16 Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?

Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Job 38:18 Have you comprehended the extent of the land? Tell me if you know all this.

Job 38:19 Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where darkness lives,

Job 38:20 so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?

Job 38:21 Don’t you know? You were already born; you have lived so long!

Job 38:22 Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?

Job 38:24 What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the ground?

Job 38:25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning,

Job 38:26 to bring rain on an uninhabited ground, on a desert with no human life,

Job 38:27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?

Job 38:28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?

Job 38:29 Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of the sky

Job 38:30 when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

Job 38:31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32 Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33 Do you know the laws of the sky? Can you impose its authority on the ground?

Job 38:34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

Job 38:36 Who put wisdom in the heart or gave the mind insight?

Job 38:37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the sky

Job 38:38 when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?

Job 38:39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions

Job 38:40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?

Job 38:41 Who provides the raven’s food when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

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