Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
9 Fear the Lord, you chosen people of his,[a]
for those who fear him lack nothing.
10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
11 Come children. Listen to me.
I will teach you what it means to fear the Lord.[b]
12 Do you want to really live?[c]
Would you love to live a long, happy life?[d]
13 Then make sure you don’t speak evil words[e]
or use deceptive speech.[f]
14 Turn away from evil and do what is right.[g]
Strive for peace and promote it.[h]
Job Pleads His Cause to God[a]
13 “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this,[b]
my ears have heard and understood it.
2 What you know,[c] I[d] know also;
I am not inferior[e] to you!
3 But I wish to speak[f] to the Almighty,[g]
and I desire to argue[h] my case[i] with God.
4 But you, however, are inventors of lies;[j]
all of you are worthless physicians![k]
5 If only you would keep completely silent![l]
For you, that would be wisdom.[m]
6 “Listen now to my argument,[n]
and be attentive to my lips’ contentions.[o]
7 Will you speak wickedly[p] on God’s behalf?[q]
Will you speak deceitfully for him?
8 Will you show him partiality?[r]
Will you argue the case[s] for God?
9 Would it turn out well if he would examine[t] you?
Or as one deceives[u] a man would you deceive him?
10 He would certainly rebuke[v] you
if you secretly[w] showed partiality.
11 Would not his splendor[x] terrify[y] you
and the fear he inspires[z] fall on you?
12 Your maxims[aa] are proverbs of ashes;[ab]
your defenses[ac] are defenses of clay.[ad]
13 “Refrain from talking[ae] with me so that[af] I may speak;
then let come to me[ag] what may.[ah]
14 Why[ai] do I put myself in peril,[aj]
and take my life in my hands?
15 Even if he slays me, I will hope in him;[ak]
I will surely[al] defend[am] my ways to his face.
16 Moreover, this will become my deliverance,
for no godless person would come before him.[an]
17 Listen carefully[ao] to my words;
let your ears be attentive to my explanation.[ap]
18 See now,[aq] I have prepared[ar] my[as] case;[at]
I know that I am right.[au]
19 Who[av] will contend with me?
If anyone can, I will be silent and die.[aw]
7 A Samaritan woman[a] came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water[b] to drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.[c])[d] 9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you—a Jew[e]—ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water[f] to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common[g] with Samaritans.)[h]
10 Jesus answered[i] her, “If you had known[j] the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water[k] to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”[l] 11 “Sir,”[m] the woman[n] said to him, “you have no bucket and the well[o] is deep; where then do you get this[p] living water?[q] 12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor[r] Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”[s]
13 Jesus replied,[t] “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty[u] again. 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again,[v] but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain[w] of water springing up[x] to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw[y] water.”[z] 16 He[aa] said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”[ab] 17 The woman replied,[ac] “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said,[ad] ‘I have no husband,’[ae] 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with[af] now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see[ag] that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,[ah] and you people[ai] say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman,[aj] a time[ak] is coming when you will worship[al] the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You people[am] worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.[an] 23 But a time[ao] is coming—and now is here[ap]—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks[aq] such people to be[ar] his worshipers.[as] 24 God is spirit,[at] and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ);[au] “whenever he[av] comes, he will tell[aw] us everything.”[ax] 26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
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