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Bible Reading for January 21

Job 18
[1] Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, [2] How long will it be ere
ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
[3] Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? [4]
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and
shall the rock be removed out of his place? [5] Yea, the light of the
wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
[6] The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put
out with him.
[7] The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel
shall cast him down.
[8] For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
[9] The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail
against him.
[10] The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the
way. [11] Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him
to his feet.
[12] His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
[13] It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death
shall devour his strength.
[14] His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall
bring him to the king of terrors.
[15] It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone
shall be scattered upon his habitation. [16] His roots shall be dried up
beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
[17] His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name
in the street.
[18] He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
[19] He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any
remaining in his dwellings.
[20] They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that
went before were affrighted.
[21] Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of
him that knoweth not God.

Job 19
[1] Then Job answered and said,
[2] How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? [3]
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make
yourselves strange to me.
[4] And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
[5] If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me
my reproach:
[6] Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
[7] Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there
is no judgment.
[8] He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness
in my paths.
[9] He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. [10]
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he
removed like a tree.
[11] He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him
as one of his enemies.
[12] His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and
encamp round about my tabernacle.
[13] He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me.
[14] My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
[15] They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:
I am an alien in their sight.
[16] I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
[17] My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's
sake of mine own body.
[18] Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
[19] All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned
against me.
[20] My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the
skin of my teeth.
[21] Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of
God hath touched me.
[22] Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
[23] Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a
book! [24] That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for
ever! [25] For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at
the latter day upon the earth:
[26] And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh
shall I see God:
[27] Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed within me. [28] But ye should say, Why
persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
[29] Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the
sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

Job 20
[1] Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, [2] Therefore do my
thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. [3] I have heard
the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to
answer. [4] Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
[5] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
hypocrite but for a moment?
[6] Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto
the clouds;
[7] Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen
him shall say, Where is he?
[8] He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be
chased away as a vision of the night. [9] The eye also which saw him shall
see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
[10] His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall
restore their goods.
[11] His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with
him in the dust.
[12] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
[13] Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
[14] Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
[15] He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God
shall cast them out of his belly.
[16] He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
[17] He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and
butter.
[18] That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it
down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not
rejoice therein.
[19] Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath
violently taken away an house which he builded not; [20] Surely he shall
not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he
desired.
[21] There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
[22] In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand
of the wicked shall come upon him.
[23] When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his
wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. [24] He
shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him
through.
[25] It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword
cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. [26] All darkness shall be
hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go
ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. [27] The heaven shall reveal
his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
[28] The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away
in the day of his wrath.
[29] This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
appointed unto him by God.

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