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  Job’s Confession and Repentance

42 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

  2 “I know that you can hdo all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

  3 i‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

things jtoo wonderful for me, which I did not know.

  4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;

kI will question you, and you make it known to me.’

  5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,

but now my eye sees you;

  6 therefore I despise myself,

and repent1 in ldust and ashes.”

 The Lord Rebukes Job’s Friends

7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz mthe Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.  8 Now therefore take nseven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and ooffer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall ppray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”  9 qSo Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

 The Lord Restores Job’s Fortunes

10 And the Lord rrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job stwice as much as he had before.  11 Then came to him all his tbrothers and sisters and all who had tknown him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they ushowed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil2 that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him va piece of money3 and wa ring of gold.

 12 And the Lord blessed xthe latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had y14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.  13 He had also zseven sons and three daughters.  14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.  15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance aamong their brothers.  16 And after this Job lived 140 years, and bsaw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.  17 And Job died, an old man, and cfull of days.

 The Psalms

Introduction

The book of Psalms is filled with the songs and prayers offered to God by the nation of Israel. Their expressions of praise, faith, sorrow, and frustration cover the range of human emotions. Some of the Psalms dwell on the treasure of wisdom and God’s Word. Others reveal the troubled heart of a mourner. Still others explode with praise to God and invite others to join in song. This diversity is unified by one element: they are centered upon the one and only living God. This Creator God is King of all the earth and a refuge to all who trust in him. Many of the Psalms are attributed to King David. The writing and collection of the Psalms into their present form spans the fifteenth to the third centuries b.c.

 Book One

 The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

1 Blessed is the man1

who awalks not in bthe counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in cthe way of sinners,

nor dsits in ethe seat of fscoffers;

  2 but his gdelight is in the law2 of the Lord,

and on his hlaw he meditates day and night.

  3 He is like ia tree

planted by jstreams of water

that yields its fruit in its season,

and its kleaf does not wither.

lIn all that he does, he prospers.

  4 The wicked are not so,

but are like mchaff that the wind drives away.

  5 Therefore the wicked nwill not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in othe congregation of the righteous;

  6 for the Lord pknows qthe way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

  The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

2 rWhy do sthe nations rage1

and the peoples plot in vain?

  2 The kings of the earth set themselves,

and the rulers take counsel together,

against the Lord and against his tAnointed, saying,

  3 “Let us uburst their bonds apart

and cast away their cords from us.”

  4 He who vsits in the heavens wlaughs;

the Lord holds them in derision.

  5 Then he will speak to them in his xwrath,

and terrify them in his fury, saying,

  6 “As for me, I have yset my King

on zZion, my aholy hill.”

  7 I will tell of the decree:

The Lord said to me, b“You are my Son;

today I have begotten you.

  8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,

and cthe ends of the earth your possession.

  9 You shall dbreak2 them with ea rod of iron

and dash them in pieces like fa potter’s vessel.”

  10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;

be warned, O rulers of the earth.

  11 gServe the Lord with hfear,

and irejoice with htrembling.

  12 jKiss kthe Son,

lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,

for his lwrath is quickly kindled.

mBlessed are all who take refuge in him.