Job 25

• 1. Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
• 2. "God is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens.
• 3. Who is able to count his heavenly army? Does his light not shine on all the earth?
• 4. How can a mere mortal stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth is pure?
• 5. God is so glorious that even the moon and stars scarcely shine compared to him.
• 6. How much less are mere people, who are but worms in his sight?"

Job 26

• 1. Then Job spoke again:
• 2. "How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved a person who has no strength!
• 3. How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise things you have said!
• 4. Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you?
• 5. "The dead tremble in their place beneath the waters.
• 6. The underworld is naked in God's presence. There is no cover for the place of destruction.
• 7. God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.
• 8. He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight.
• 9. He shrouds his throne with his clouds.
• 10. He created the horizon when he separated the waters; he set the boundaries for day and night.
• 11. The foundations of heaven tremble at his rebuke.
• 12. By his power the sea grew calm. By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.
• 13. His Spirit made the heavens beautiful, and his power pierced the gliding serpent.
• 14. "These are some of the minor things he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who can understand the thunder of his power?"

Job 27

• 1. Job continued speaking:
• 2. "I make this vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul.
• 3. As long as I live, while I have breath from God,
• 4. my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.
• 5. I will never concede that you are right; until I die, I will defend my innocence.
• 6. I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.
• 7. "May my enemy be punished like the wicked, my adversary like evil men.
• 8. For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?
• 9. Will God listen to their cry when trouble comes upon them?
• 10. Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?
• 11. "I will teach you about God's power. I will not conceal anything that concerns the Almighty.
• 12. But I don't need to, for you yourselves have seen all this; yet you are saying all these useless things to me.
• 13. "This is what the wicked will receive from God; this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
• 14. If they have a multitude of children, their children will die in war or starve to death.
• 15. Those who survive will be brought down to the grave by a plague, with no one to mourn them, not even their wives.
• 16. "Evil people may have all the money in the world, and they may store away mounds of clothing.
• 17. But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide all that money.
• 18. The houses built by the wicked are as fragile as a spiderweb, as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
• 19. "The wicked go to bed rich but wake up to find that all their wealth is gone.
• 20. Terror overwhelms them, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
• 21. The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away.
• 22. It whirls down on them without mercy. They struggle to flee from its power.
• 23. But everyone jeers at them and mocks them.

New Living Translation: 161 of 324 days.