Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

8 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world; Who has set Your Glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of children and infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies; that You might cease the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I behold Your heavens, the works of Your fingers; the moon and the stars which You have ordained,

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him; and the son of man that You seek him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than God and crowned him with glory and worship.

⁶ You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands. You have put all things under his feet,

⁷ all sheep and oxen; indeed, and the beasts of the field,

⁸ the birds of the air and the fish of the sea; that which passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world! To him who excels upon Muth Labben: A Psalm of David.

38 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

² “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

³ “Now gird up your loins, like a man. I will demand of you, and you declare to Me.

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

⁵ “Who has laid its measures, if you know. Or who has stretched the line over it.

⁶ “Upon what are its foundations set. Or who laid its cornerstone

⁷ “when the stars of the morning praised together, and all the children of God rejoiced?

⁸ “Or who has shut up the sea with doors, when it issued and came forth as out of the womb,

⁹ “when I made the clouds as its covering, and darkness as its swaddling bands,

¹⁰ “when I established My Commandment upon it, and set bars and doors,

¹¹ “and said, ‘To here shall you come, but no further. And here shall it stop your proud waves’?

⁸ Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me (His prisoner). But share in the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God.

⁹ He has saved us and called us with a holy calling - not according to our works - but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us through Christ Jesus before the world was;

¹⁰ but is now revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Jesus Christ, Who has abolished death and has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel,

¹¹ for which I am appointed a preacher and Apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.

¹² For this reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed. For I know Whom I have believed. And I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that Day.