Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
26 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my innocence. My trust has also been in the LORD. Therefore, I shall not slide.
2 Test me, O LORD, and try me. Examine my core and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes. Therefore, I have walked in Your truth.
4 I have not dwelt with frivolous people, nor kept company with the deceitful.
5 I have hated the assembly of the evil and have not kept company with the wicked.
6 I will wash my hands in innocence, O LORD, and surround Your altar.
7 So that I may declare with the voice of thanksgiving and set forth all Your wondrous works.
8 O LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your honor dwells.
9 Do not gather my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloody men,
10 in whose hands are wickedness, and their right hands are full of bribes.
11 But I will walk in my innocence. Redeem me and be merciful to me.
12 My foot stands in uprightness. I will praise You, O LORD, in the Congregations. A Psalm of David.
11 Now, when Job’s three friends heard of all this calamity that had come upon him, they came, everyone from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had agreed together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him.
12 So, when they lifted up their eyes from far off, they did not know him. Therefore, they lifted up their voices and wept. And every one of them tore his garment and sprinkled dust upon his head, toward the sky.
13 So they sat by him, upon the ground, for seven days and seven nights. And no one spoke a word to him. For they saw that the grief was very great.
3 Afterward, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2 And Job cried out, and said,
3 “Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night when it was said, ‘There is a male child conceived.’
4 “Let that day be darkness. Do not let God seek it from above or let the light shine upon it.
5 “Let darkness, and the shadow of death, stain it. Let the cloud remain upon it. And let them make it fearful, as a bitter day.
6 “Let darkness possess that night. Do not let it be joined to the days of the year or let it come into the count of the months.
7 “Yea, let that night be desolate! And let no joy be in it!
8 “Let those who curse the day, curse it (being ready to renew their mourning).
9 “Let the stars of that twilight be dim through the darkness of it. Let it look for light but have none. Nor let it see the dawning of the day,
10 “because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb or hide sorrow from my eyes.
11 “Why did I not die at birth? Or why did I not die when I came out of the womb?
12 “Why did the knees prevent me? And why did I suck the breasts?
13 “For I would now have lain down and been quiet. I would have slept then, and been at rest
14 “with the kings and counselors of the Earth, who have built themselves desolate places,
15 “or with the princes who had gold and have filled their houses with silver.
16 “Or, why was I not hidden, as a stillborn birth, or as infants who have not seen the light?
17 “There the wicked have ceased from tyranny. And there those who labored valiantly are at rest.
18 “The prisoners rest together, not hearing the voice of the oppressor.
19 “The small and great are there. And the servant is free from his master.
20 “Why is the light given to him who is in misery, and life to those who have heavy hearts,
21 “who long for death? And if it does not come, they will search for it even more than treasures,
22 “who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave.
23 “Why is the light given to the man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
24 “For my sighing comes before I eat. And my roarings are poured out like the water.
25 “For the thing I feared has come upon me. And the thing that I was afraid of has come to me.
26 “I had no peace. Nor had I quietness. Nor had I rest. Yet trouble has come.”
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, as under guard, and locked up, until that faith which should be revealed.
24 So that the Law was our tutor, bringing us to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.
25 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
26 For you are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus.
27 For all you who were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Grecian. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs by promise.
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