Formation Journal Reading Plan

36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,

36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will show thee; For I have yet somewhat to say on God’s behalf.

36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

36:4 For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.

36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked, But giveth to the afflicted their right.

36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

36:9 Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

36:10 He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

36:11 If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

36:12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

36:13 But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.

36:14 They die in youth, And their life perisheth among the unclean.

36:15 He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.

36:16 Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no straitness; And that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

36:17 But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold on thee.

36:18 For let not wrath stir thee up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.

36:19 Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy strength?

36:20 Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

36:22 Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

36:23 Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

36:24 Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

36:25 All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.

36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

36:27 For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

36:28 Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.

36:29 Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

36:31 For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

36:32 He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

36:33 The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerning the storm that cometh up.

64:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

64:3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

64:4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

64:6 They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.

64:7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

64:8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

64:9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing.

64:10 The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him; And all the upright in heart shall glory.

14:1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

14:2 For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

14:4 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

14:5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

14:6 But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

14:7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

14:9 So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

14:11 If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.

14:12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

14:14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

14:16 Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

14:18 I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

14:19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

14:20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

14:21 In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.

14:23 If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;

14:25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.