Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David.

² O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

³ Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

⁴ For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

⁵ What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

⁶ Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

⁷ And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

⁹ The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

¹⁰ O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!

38 Then the Lord answered Job out of a whirlwind, and said:

² Who is this that wrappeth up sentences in unskillful words?

³ Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

⁴ Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

⁵ Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

⁶ Upon what are its bases grounded? or who laid the corner stone thereof,

⁷ When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

⁸ Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

⁹ When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands?

¹⁰ I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors:

¹¹ And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

⁸ Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God,

⁹ Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world.

¹⁰ But is now made manifest by the illumination of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath destroyed death, and hath brought to light life and incorruption by the gospel:

¹¹ Wherein I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and teacher of the Gentiles.

¹² For which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.