Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
² You have made sure that children
    and infants praise you.
Their praise is a wall
    that stops the talk of your enemies.

³ I think about the heavens.
    I think about what your fingers have created.
I think about the moon and stars
    that you have set in place.
⁴ What are human beings that you think about them?
    What is a son of man that you take care of him?
⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels.
    You placed on them a crown of glory and honor.

⁶ You made human beings rule over everything your hands created.
    You put everything under their control.
⁷ They rule over all flocks and herds
    and over the wild animals.
⁸ They rule over the birds in the sky
    and over the fish in the ocean.
    They rule over everything that swims in the oceans.

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in the whole earth!

¹² “Job, have you ever commanded the morning to come?
    Have you ever shown the sun where to rise?
¹³ The daylight takes the earth by its edges
    as if it were a blanket.
    Then it shakes sinful people out of it.
¹⁴ The earth takes shape like clay stamped with an official’s mark.
    Its features stand out
    like the different parts of your clothes.
¹⁵ Sinners would rather have darkness than light.
    When the light comes, their power is broken.

¹⁶ “Have you traveled to the springs at the bottom of the ocean?
    Have you walked in its deepest parts?
¹⁷ Have the gates of death been shown to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
¹⁸ Do you understand how big the earth is?
    Tell me, if you know all these things.

¹⁹ “Where does light come from?
    And where does darkness live?
²⁰ Can you take them to their places?
    Do you know the paths to their houses?
²¹ I am sure you know! After all, you were already born!
    You have lived so many years!