Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

123 If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

² If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,

³ Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

⁴ Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

⁵ Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.

⁷ Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

25 Then Baldad the Suhite answered, and I said:

² Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

³ Is there any numbering of his soldiers? and upon whom shall not his light arise?

⁴ Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?

⁵ Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight.

⁶ How much less man that is rottenness and the son of man who is a worm?

26 Then Job answered, and said:

² Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength?

³ To whom hast thou given counsel? perhaps to him that hath no wisdom, and thou hast shewn thy very great prudence.

⁴ Whom hast thou desired to teach? was it not him that made life?

⁵ Behold the giants groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.

⁶ Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

⁷ He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his clouds, so that they break not out and fall down together.

⁹ He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.

¹⁰ He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.

¹² By his power the seas are suddenly gathered together, and his wisdom has struck the proud one.

¹³ His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.

¹⁴ Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

¹⁹ Then Jesus answered, and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner.

²⁰ For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things which himself doth: and greater works than these will he shew him, that you may wonder.

²¹ For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

²² For neither doth the Father judge any man, but hath given all judgment to the Son.

²³ That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father, who hath sent him.

²⁴ Amen, amen I say unto you, that he who heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath life everlasting; and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.

²⁵ Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.

²⁶ For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the Son also to have life in himself:

²⁷ And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son of man.

²⁸ Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh, wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.

²⁹ And they that have done good things, shall come forth unto the resurrection of life; but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.