Reading Plan
Comprehensive Reading Plan (365 days) New Testament Reading Plan (83 days) Old Testament Plan (282 days) Old/New Testament Plan (365 days) Survey Reading Plan (61 days) Through-the-Bible Reading Plan (365 days)
Bible Version
Apostles' Bible Complete (2004) King James Version (1769) New King James Version (1982) Today's English Version (Good News Bible) (1992) Voice In Wilderness (2006)
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I am tired of living. Listen to my bitter complaint.
2
Don't condemn me, God. Tell me! What is the charge against me?
3
Is it right for you to be so cruel? To despise what you yourself have made? And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?
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Do you see things as we do?
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Is your life as short as ours?
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Then why do you track down all my sins and hunt down every fault I have?
7
You know that I am not guilty, that no one can save me from you.
8
Your hands formed and shaped me, and now those same hands destroy me.
9
Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?
10
You gave my father strength to beget me; you made me grow in my mother's womb.
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You formed my body with bones and sinews and covered the bones with muscles and skin.
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You have given me life and constant love, and your care has kept me alive.
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But now I know that all that time you were secretly planning to harm me.
14
You were watching to see if I would sin, so that you could refuse to forgive me.
15
As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you, but when I do right, I get no credit. I am miserable and covered with shame.
16
If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles.
17
You always have some witness against me; your anger toward me grows and grows; you always plan some new attack.
18
Why, God, did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me.
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To go from the womb straight to the grave would have been as good as never existing.
20
Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone! Let me enjoy the time I have left.
21
I am going soon and will never come back--- going to a land that is dark and gloomy,
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a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.
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Will no one answer all this nonsense? Does talking so much put you in the right?
3
Job, do you think we can't answer you? That your mocking words will leave us speechless?
4
You claim that what you say is true; you claim you are pure in the sight of God.
5
How I wish God would answer you!
6
He would tell you there are many sides to wisdom; there are things too deep for human knowledge. God is punishing you less than you deserve.
7
Can you discover the limits and bounds of the greatness and power of God?
8
The sky is no limit for God, but it lies beyond your reach. God knows the world of the dead, but you do not know it.
9
God's greatness is broader than the earth, wider than the sea.
10
If God arrests you and brings you to trial, who is there to stop him?
11
God knows which people are worthless; he sees all their evil deeds.
12
Stupid people will start being wise when wild donkeys are born tame.
13
Put your heart right, Job. Reach out to God.
14
Put away evil and wrong from your home.
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Then face the world again, firm and courageous.
16
Then all your troubles will fade from your memory, like floods that are past and remembered no more.
17
Your life will be brighter than sunshine at noon, and life's darkest hours will shine like the dawn.
18
You will live secure and full of hope; God will protect you and give you rest.
19
You won't be afraid of your enemies; many people will ask you for help.
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But the wicked will look around in despair and find that there is no way to escape. Their one hope is that death will come.
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Yes, you are the voice of the people. When you die, wisdom will die with you.
3
But I have as much sense as you have; I am in no way inferior to you; everyone knows all that you have said.
4
Even my friends laugh at me now; they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless; but there was a time when God answered my prayers.
5
You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me; you hit someone who is about to fall.
6
But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.
7
Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;
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ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.
9
All of them know that the LORD's hand made them.
10
It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.
11
But just as your tongue enjoys tasting food, your ears enjoy hearing words.
12
Old people have wisdom, but God has wisdom and power. Old people have insight; God has insight and power to act.
14
When God tears down, who can rebuild, and who can free those God imprisons?
15
Drought comes when God withholds rain; floods come when he turns water loose.
16
God is strong and always victorious; both deceived and deceiver are in his power.
17
He takes away the wisdom of rulers and makes leaders act like fools.
18
He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners;
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he humbles priests and men of power.
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He silences those who are trusted, and takes the wisdom of old people away.
21
He disgraces those in power and puts an end to the strength of rulers.
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He sends light to places dark as death.
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He makes nations strong and great, but then he defeats and destroys them.
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He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost;
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they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.
