JOB 19

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Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives  19:1 Then Job answered and said:
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“How long will you torment me

and break me in pieces with words? 3

These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;

are you not ashamed to wrong me? 4

And even if it be true that I have erred,

my error remains with myself. 5

If indeed you magnify yourselves against me

and make my disgrace an argument against me, 6

know then that God has put me in the wrong

and closed his net about me. 7

Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;

I call for help, but there is no justice. 8

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,

and he has set darkness upon my paths. 9

He has stripped from me my glory

and taken the crown from my head. 10

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,

and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. 11

He has kindled his wrath against me

and counts me as his adversary. 12

His troops come on together;

they have cast up their siege ramp against me

and encamp around my tent.
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“He has put my brothers far from me,

and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. 14

My relatives have failed me,

my close friends have forgotten me. 15

The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;

I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 16

I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;

I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. 17

My breath is strange to my wife,

and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. 18

Even young children despise me;

when I rise they talk against me. 19

All my intimate friends abhor me,

and those whom I loved have turned against me. 20

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,

and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,

for the hand of God has touched me! 22

Why do you, like God, pursue me?

Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
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“Oh that my words were written!

Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 24

Oh that with an iron pen and lead

they were engraved in the rock forever! 25

For I know that my Redeemer lives,

and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 26

And after my skin has been thus destroyed,

yet in my flesh I shall see God, 27

whom I shall see for myself,

and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

My heart faints within me! 28

If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’

and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’ 29

be afraid of the sword,

for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,

that you may know there is a judgment.”

MARK 8

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Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand  8:1 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, 2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. 3 And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.” 4 And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?” 5 And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” 6 And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd. 7 And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them. 8 And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. 9 And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 10 And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha. The Pharisees Demand a Sign11 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. 12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” 13 And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side. The Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod14 Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. 15 And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” 16 And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread. 17 And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.” 20 “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.” 21 And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?” Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida22 And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” 24 And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 25 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.” Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
    34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 37 For what can a man give in return for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”