Formation Journal Reading Plan

21:1 Then Job answered and said,

21:2 Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.

21:3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.

21:6 Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.

21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

21:8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.

21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

21:12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

21:14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

21:16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

21:17 How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That God distributeth sorrows in his anger?

21:18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

21:19 Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21:21 For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

21:23 One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:

21:24 His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

21:25 And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

21:26 They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

21:29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

21:30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

21:32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

55:1 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not thyself from my supplication.

55:2 Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.

55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. [Selah

55:8 I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

55:11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

9:1 Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

9:2 If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

9:3 My defence to them that examine me is this.

9:4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?

9:5 Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

9:7 What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

9:8 Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,

9:10 or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.

9:11 If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

9:12 If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

9:13 Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?

9:14 Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

9:15 But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

9:17 For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

9:18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.