Formation Journal Reading Plan

7:1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

7:2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

7:3 So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

7:7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

7:8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

7:10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:

7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

7:16 I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

7:18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?

7:19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

7:20 If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

7:21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

8:3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

8:4 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

8:5 If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

8:6 If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

8:7 And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

8:8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

8:10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?

8:12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:

8:14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.

8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

8:16 He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

8:17 His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

8:18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.

8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.

8:21 He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting.

8:22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

49:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

49:2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

49:6 They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him;

49:8 (For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever),

49:9 That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

1:18 For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God.

1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.

1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1:21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

1:22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:

1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness;

1:24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1:26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

1:27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

1:28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

1:29 that no flesh should glory before God.

1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

1:31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

2:1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

2:4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

2:5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.