FIRST
READING: Job 38:
1, 12 - 21; Job 40:
3 - 5
1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
12
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and
caused the dawn to know its place,
13
that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be
shaken out of it?
14
It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a
garment.
15
From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is
broken.
16
"Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the
recesses of the deep?
17
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the
gates of deep darkness?
18
Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know
all this.
19
"Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the
place of darkness,
20
that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the
paths to its home?
21
You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is
great!
3
Then Job answered the LORD:
4
"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay
my hand on my mouth.
5
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed
no further."
PSALM:
Psalms 139:
1 - 3, 7 - 10, 13 - 14
1
O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me!
2
Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up; thou discernest my
thoughts from afar.
3
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with
all my ways.
7
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy
presence?
8
If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol,
thou art there!
9
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea,
10
even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
13
For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in
my mother's womb.
14
I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy
works! Thou knowest me right well.
GOSPEL:
Luke 10:
13 - 16
13
"Woe to you, Chora'zin! woe to you, Beth-sa'ida! for if the
mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would
have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14
But it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon
than for you.
15
And you, Caper'na-um, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be
brought down to Hades.
16
"He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me,
and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
