OT Marathon Feb 5

Job 40:6 – 42:17 (New International Version) 6 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm: 7 “Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. 8 “Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself? 9 Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his? 10 Then adorn […]

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OT Marathon Feb 4

Job 38-40:5 (New International Version) The Lord Speaks 38   Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: 2 “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? 3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. […]

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OT Marathon Feb 3

Job 35-37 (New International Version) 35   Then Elihu said: 2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’ 3 Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a] and what do I gain by not sinning?’ 4 “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you. 5 Look […]

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OT Marathon Feb 1

Job 32-34 (New International Version) Elihu 32  So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. 3 He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and […]

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OT Marathon Jan 31

Job 30-31 (New International Version)   30 “But now they mock me,     men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. 2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them? 3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed[a] the parched land in […]

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