Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

38 And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

² Who [is] this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

³ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

⁵ Who placed its measures -- if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line?

⁶ On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

⁷ In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,

⁸ And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

⁹ In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

¹⁰ And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

¹¹ And say, `Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

107 `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age [is] His kindness:'

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say, Whom He redeemed from the hand of an adversary.

³ And from the lands hath gathered them, From east and from west, From north, and from the sea.

²³ Those going down [to] the sea in ships, Doing business in many waters,

²⁴ They have seen the works of Jehovah, And His wonders in the deep.

²⁵ And He saith, and appointeth a tempest, And it lifteth up its billows,

²⁶ They go up [to] the heavens, they go down [to] the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.

²⁷ They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.

²⁸ And they cry to Jehovah in their adversity, And from their distresses He bringeth them out.

²⁹ He establisheth a whirlwind to a calm, And hushed are their billows.

³⁰ And they rejoice because they are quiet, And He leadeth them to the haven of their desire.

³¹ They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men,

³² And they exalt Him in the assembly of the people, And in the seat of the elders praise Him.

6 And working together also we call upon [you] that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

² for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now [is] a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

³ in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

⁴ but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

⁶ in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

⁷ in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,

⁸ through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;

⁹ as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

¹⁰ as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

¹¹ Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

¹² ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your [own] bowels,

¹³ and [as] a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say [it],) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

³⁵ And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, `We may pass over to the other side;'

³⁶ and having let away the multitude, they take him up as he was in the boat, and other little boats also were with him.

³⁷ And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled,

³⁸ and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, `Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'

³⁹ And having waked up, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, `Peace, be stilled;' and the wind did lull, and there was a great calm:

⁴⁰ and he said to them, `Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?'

⁴¹ and they feared a great fear, and said one to another, `Who, then, is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'