JOB 30

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30:1

“But now they laugh at me,

men who are younger than I,

whose fathers I would have disdained

to set with the dogs of my flock. 2

What could I gain from the strength of their hands,

men whose vigor is gone? 3

Through want and hard hunger

they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; 4

they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,

and the roots of the broom tree for their food. 5

They are driven out from human company;

they shout after them as after a thief. 6

In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,

in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 7

Among the bushes they bray;

under the nettles they huddle together. 8

A senseless, a nameless brood,

they have been whipped out of the land.
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“And now I have become their song;

I am a byword to them. 10

They abhor me; they keep aloof from me;

they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. 11

Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,

they have cast off restraint in my presence. 12

On my right hand the rabble rise;

they push away my feet;

they cast up against me their ways of destruction. 13

They break up my path;

they promote my calamity;

they need no one to help them. 14

As through a wide breach they come;

amid the crash they roll on. 15

Terrors are turned upon me;

my honor is pursued as by the wind,

and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
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“And now my soul is poured out within me;

days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17

The night racks my bones,

and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. 18

With great force my garment is disfigured;

it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. 19

God has cast me into the mire,

and I have become like dust and ashes. 20

I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;

I stand, and you only look at me. 21

You have turned cruel to me;

with the might of your hand you persecute me. 22

You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,

and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. 23

For I know that you will bring me to death

and to the house appointed for all living.
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“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,

and in his disaster cry for help? 25

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard?

Was not my soul grieved for the needy? 26

But when I hoped for good, evil came,

and when I waited for light, darkness came. 27

My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;

days of affliction come to meet me. 28

I go about darkened, but not by the sun;

I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 29

I am a brother of jackals

and a companion of ostriches. 30

My skin turns black and falls from me,

and my bones burn with heat. 31

My lyre is turned to mourning,

and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

MARK 15

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Jesus Delivered to Pilate  15:1 And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. 2 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” 3 And the chief priests accused him of many things. 4 And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” 5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified6 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. 8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. 9 And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. 12 And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” 13 And they cried out again, “Crucify him.” 14 And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.” 15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Jesus Is Mocked16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 19 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him. The Crucifixion21 And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 22 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). 23 And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 25 And it was the third hour when they crucified him. 26 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” 27 And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 29 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!” 31 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. 32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him. The Death of Jesus33 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 35 And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” 36 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” 37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. 38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
    40 There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 41 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. Jesus Is Buried42 And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 44 Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. 45 And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. 46 And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 47 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.