Job 38:1-11

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The Lord Speaks

38 Then the Lord spoke to Job^(A) out of the storm.^(B) He said:

²“Who is this that obscures my plans^(C)
    with words without knowledge?^(D)
³Brace yourself like a man;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.^(E)

⁴“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?^(F)
    Tell me, if you understand.^(G)
⁵Who marked off its dimensions?^(H) Surely you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line^(I) across it?
⁶On what were its footings set,^(J)
    or who laid its cornerstone^(K)—
⁷while the morning stars^(L) sang together^(M)
    and all the angels^[a]^(N) shouted for joy?^(O)

⁸“Who shut up the sea behind doors^(P)
    when it burst forth from the womb,^(Q)
⁹when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,^(R)
¹⁰when I fixed limits for it^(S)
    and set its doors and bars in place,^(T)
¹¹when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;^(U)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?^(V)

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Footnotes

Job 38:7 Hebrew the sons of God

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

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¹⁴For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.^(A) ¹⁵And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves^(B) but for him who died for them^(C) and was raised again.

¹⁶So from now on we regard no one from a worldly^(D) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,^(E) the new creation^(F) has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!^(G) ¹⁸All this is from God,^(H) who reconciled us to himself through Christ^(I) and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.^(J) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,^(K) as though God were making his appeal through us.^(L) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.^(M) ²¹God made him who had no sin^(N) to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.^(O)

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Footnotes

2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ, that person is a new creation.
2 Corinthians 5:21 Or be a sin offering

Mark 4:35-41

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Jesus Calms the Storm^(A)

³⁵That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” ³⁶Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat.^(B) There were also other boats with him. ³⁷A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. ³⁸Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

³⁹He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

⁴⁰He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”^(C)

⁴¹They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”

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