Formation Journal Reading Plan

10:1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

10:2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

10:4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

10:5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

10:6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

10:7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

10:8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

10:9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

10:10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

10:12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

10:13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

10:14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

10:16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

10:18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

10:19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

10:20 Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

10:21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

10:22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”

11:1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

11:2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

11:3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

11:4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

11:6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

11:7 “Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

11:8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

11:9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

11:10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

11:11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

11:12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

11:13 “If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

11:14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

11:15 Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

11:16 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

11:17 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

11:18 You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.

11:19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor.

11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”

50:1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

50:4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:

50:5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

50:6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

50:7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

50:8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

50:9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

3:1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

3:2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

3:3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

3:4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

3:6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

3:7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

3:8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

3:9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

3:11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

3:12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

3:13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

3:14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

3:15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

3:16 Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

3:17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

3:18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

3:20 And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

3:23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.