Bible In A Year

¹Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; For his loving kindness endures forever.

²Give thanks to the God of gods; For his loving kindness endures forever.

³Give thanks to the Lord of lords; For his loving kindness endures forever:

⁴To him who alone does great wonders; For his loving kindness endures forever:

⁵To him who by understanding made the heavens; For his loving kindness endures forever:

⁶To him who spread out the earth above the waters; For his loving kindness endures forever:

⁷To him who made the great lights; For his loving kindness endures forever:

⁸The sun to rule by day; For his loving kindness endures forever;

⁹The moon and stars to rule by night; For his loving kindness endures forever:

¹⁰To him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; For his loving kindness endures forever;

¹¹And brought out Israel from among them; For his loving kindness endures forever;

¹²With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; For his loving kindness endures forever:

¹³To him who divided the Red Sea apart; For his loving kindness endures forever;

¹⁴And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For his loving kindness endures forever;

¹⁵But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; For his loving kindness endures forever:

¹⁶To him who led his people through the wilderness; For his loving kindness endures forever:

¹⁷To him who struck great kings; For his loving kindness endures forever;

¹⁸And killed mighty kings; For his loving kindness endures forever:

¹⁹Sihon king of the Amorites; For his loving kindness endures forever;

²⁰Og king of Bashan; For his loving kindness endures forever;

²¹And gave their land as an inheritance; For his loving kindness endures forever;

²²Even a heritage to Israel his servant; For his loving kindness endures forever:

²³Who remembered us in our low estate; For his loving kindness endures forever;

²⁴And has delivered us from our adversaries; For his loving kindness endures forever:

²⁵Who gives food to every creature; For his loving kindness endures forever.

²⁶Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; For his loving kindness endures forever.

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, ²"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? ³Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees. ⁵But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled. ⁶Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope? ⁷"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? ⁸According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same. ⁹By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed. ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. ¹²"Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it. ¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, ¹⁴Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake. ¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up. ¹⁶It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, ¹⁷'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? ¹⁸Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. ¹⁹How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! ²⁰Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. ²¹Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

¹"Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? ²For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple. ³I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, ⁵Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance. ⁶For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground; ⁷But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward. ⁸"But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause; ⁹Who does great things that can't be fathomed, Marvelous things without number; ¹⁰Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields; ¹¹So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety. ¹²He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. ¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth. ¹⁷"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole. ¹⁹He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you. ²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; In war, from the power of the sword. ²¹You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. ²²At destruction and famine you shall laugh, Neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth. ²³For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. ²⁴You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing. ²⁵You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season. ²⁷Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good."

¹Then Job answered, ²"Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! ³For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash. ⁴For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. ⁵Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder? ⁶Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? ⁷My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me. ⁸"Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for! ⁹Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! ¹⁰Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One. ¹¹What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient? ¹²Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? ¹³Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me? ¹⁴"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. ¹⁵My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away; ¹⁶Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself: ¹⁷In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. ¹⁸The caravans that travel beside them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish. ¹⁹The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them. ²⁰They were distressed because they were confident; They came there, and were confounded. ²¹For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. ²²Did I say, 'Give to me?' Or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?' ²³Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?' ²⁴"Teach me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred. ²⁵How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? ²⁶Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? ²⁷Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. ²⁸Now therefore be pleased to look at me, For surely I shall not lie to your face. ²⁹Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous. ³⁰Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

¹"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand? ²As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, As a hireling who looks for his wages, ³So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me. ⁴When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day. ⁵My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. ⁶My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. ⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good. ⁸The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. ⁹As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. ¹⁰He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more. ¹¹"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. ¹²Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me? ¹³When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;' ¹⁴Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions: ¹⁵So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones. ¹⁶I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath. ¹⁷What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him, ¹⁸That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment? ¹⁹How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself? ²¹Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."