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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OT Marathon Jan 30

Job 26-29 (New International Version) Job 26  Then Job replied: 2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble! 3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed! 4 Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke […]

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OT Marathon Jan 29

Job 22-25 (New International Version) Eliphaz 22 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2 “Can a man be of benefit to God? Can even a wise person benefit him? 3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous? What would he gain if your ways were blameless? 4 “Is it for your piety […]

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