Formation Journal Reading Plan

12:1 Then Job answered and said,

12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

12:4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

12:5 In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

12:6 The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

12:9 Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,

12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

12:11 Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

12:12 With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.

12:13 With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.

12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

12:16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

12:17 He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

12:18 He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.

12:19 He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

12:20 He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

12:21 He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

12:22 He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

12:23 He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.

12:24 He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

12:25 They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,

50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?

50:18 When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.

50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

50:23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way aright Will I show the salvation of God.

4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

4:2 Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

4:4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

4:5 Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.

4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

4:7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

4:8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

4:9 For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

4:10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

4:12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

4:13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.