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9/3/2021 DAB Chronological Transcription

Ezekiel 22-23

Welcome to Daily Audio Bible Chronological. I’m Jill, and it is the third day of September. It’s a brand new month. Let me just put this year into perspective. We are four months away from Christmas. I know it’s still hot for a lot of us. We can’t even think about it. But when you get to this time of the year, it just seems to fly by and we’ll go, how did we get to Christmas already? So here is your loving reminder that you have four months until Christmas. Okay. The third day of September, that’s been established. We are reading in Ezekiel and we’re reading Chapter 22 and 23 today. And we’re reading in the New International version this week. And if I didn’t say, I’m Jill. And it’s great to be here with you, today. Ezekiel chapter 22.

Prayer: 

Oh, Father, we thank you for your word again. We thank you that you graciously, speak to us. You…through your people. Sometimes people. It doesn’t make sense to people You use to graciously warn us, to show us the dangers ahead. You show us the dangers of not following through. And you welcome us back if we would just swallow our pride, humble ourselves, let down our guard and come back to you. I thank you for the many, many times you spoke in my life to people, through other people, things that didn’t make sense. Things that did make sense out of the clear blue. It gave me hope- that renewed my hope again. That helped me endure a little longer. I pray, Father, that we would endure well, a little longer, as it gets dark and it gets bleak. Sometimes we look for the love of Christ and all we see is hate and division, hypocrisy, selfishness. But if we look deeper, we will find you. We will find your love. If we look in the mirror, we are reminded we bear the image of God. You are there. You are in us. Nothing can separate us. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. So we thank you for these words today. May we take heed. May we take notice. May we do inventory once again on our own hearts. Are we exuding the love of Christ to all we come into contact with? We pray this in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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Hi DABC, this is Emmy from Illinois. I am calling in requesting prayer for my dad today. He is going to turn 80 on Friday and was put on a ventilator yesterday due to COVID. He’s had it for a couple of weeks now and his oxygen levels were just not getting up there without massive help from the bypass machine and a couple of other things. So just asking for prayer that he’ll be able to relax into this and heal so that he can come out of it. I know he’s lived a long and healthy and prosperous life. And he would have no regret going home to the Lord. But selfishly, I want him here to meet my baby in three months, and I’m not ready to let him go. So if you can pray for us, that would be great.

Good morning, my DABC family. It’s Susan from Canada, God’s Yellow Flower calling. And I left a message in the DAB and I’m going to ask again here for prayer for President Biden, whether you agree with him or not. He’s the President of the United States of America, and he needs God’s wisdom right now. So, dear Lord, I just come before you with President Biden in my heart, and I bring him before the throne of Grace and ask that your wisdom be imparted on to him, that he would have the heart of God within Him, the wisdom of God and the courage and strength of God. And we pray that the decisions he makes concerning Afghanistan and how this bombing will affect the world. We pray dear God, that you would impart your wisdom on to him as he is burdened with this responsibility. I pray to your God that the supporters he has in the military will give good and Godly advice. I don’t know what the answer is, but you do, Lord. You know all things. I pray the light of Christ which shine upon Afghanistan and that God the one true God would be revealed and that many people would come to know you through this horrible situation. In Jesus precious and Holy name I pray. Amen.

Giving all praise, glory and honor to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the head of my life. This is Walking in the Wilderness in Georgia, Laura. And I just need to say, Jill, Jill, Jill my sister in Christ. Woman, what you said at the end of today, this would be August the 28th message was so on point. I receive that I’m not offended by it because I can have opinions all day long. But if it doesn’t line up with the word and the will of the Father, the Creator, the mighty King of King and Lord of Lords, it doesn’t matter. Thank you, Jill, for your obedience to speaking what God placed in your spirit to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Forgive my breathing heart. I’m walking on my treadmill. But I could not stop and get off to say what I had to say because I’m being obedient to the Spirit of the Lord. Peace and blessings to everyone. Love you.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday September 4, 2021 (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 7-9

Wisdom

7 A good name is better than fine perfume,(A)
and the day of death better than the day of birth.(B)
2 It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
for death(C) is the destiny(D) of everyone;
the living should take this to heart.
3 Frustration is better than laughter,(E)
because a sad face is good for the heart.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.(F)
5 It is better to heed the rebuke(G) of a wise person
than to listen to the song of fools.
6 Like the crackling of thorns(H) under the pot,
so is the laughter(I) of fools.
This too is meaningless.

7 Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,
and a bribe(J) corrupts the heart.

8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
and patience(K) is better than pride.
9 Do not be quickly provoked(L) in your spirit,
for anger resides in the lap of fools.(M)

10 Do not say, “Why were the old days(N) better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions.

11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing(O)
and benefits those who see the sun.(P)
12 Wisdom is a shelter
as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this:
Wisdom preserves those who have it.

13 Consider what God has done:(Q)

Who can straighten
what he has made crooked?(R)
14 When times are good, be happy;
but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
as well as the other.(S)
Therefore, no one can discover
anything about their future.

15 In this meaningless life(T) of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness.(U)
16 Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise—
why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
and do not be a fool—
why die before your time?(V)
18 It is good to grasp the one
and not let go of the other.
Whoever fears God(W) will avoid all extremes.[a]

19 Wisdom(X) makes one wise person more powerful(Y)
than ten rulers in a city.

20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(Z)
no one who does what is right and never sins.(AA)

21 Do not pay attention to every word people say,
or you(AB) may hear your servant cursing you—
22 for you know in your heart
that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”(AC)—
but this was beyond me.
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
who can discover it?(AD)
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(AE)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.(AF)

26 I find more bitter than death
the woman who is a snare,(AG)
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.(AH)

27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[b](AI) “this is what I have discovered:

“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28 while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman(AJ) among them all.
29 This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

8 Who is like the wise?
Who knows the explanation of things?
A person’s wisdom brightens their face
and changes its hard appearance.

Obey the King

2 Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. 3 Do not be in a hurry to leave the king’s presence.(AK) Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. 4 Since a king’s word is supreme, who can say to him, “What are you doing?(AL)”

5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,
and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,(AM)
though a person may be weighed down by misery.

7 Since no one knows the future,
who can tell someone else what is to come?
8 As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
so[c] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own[d] hurt. 10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried(AN)—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[e] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. 12 Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better(AO) with those who fear God,(AP) who are reverent before him.(AQ) 13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God,(AR) it will not go well with them, and their days(AS) will not lengthen like a shadow.

14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve.(AT) This too, I say, is meaningless.(AU) 15 So I commend the enjoyment of life(AV), because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink(AW) and be glad.(AX) Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom(AY) and to observe the labor that is done on earth(AZ)—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done.(BA) No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.(BB)

A Common Destiny for All

9 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.(BC) 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[f] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.(BD)

3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.(BE) The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live,(BF) and afterward they join the dead.(BG) 4 Anyone who is among the living has hope[g]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

5 For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;(BH)
they have no further reward,
and even their name(BI) is forgotten.(BJ)
6 Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun.(BK)

7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine(BL) with a joyful heart,(BM) for God has already approved what you do. 8 Always be clothed in white,(BN) and always anoint your head with oil. 9 Enjoy life with your wife,(BO) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot(BP) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. 10 Whatever(BQ) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,(BR) for in the realm of the dead,(BS) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.(BT)

11 I have seen something else under the sun:

The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,(BU)
nor does food come to the wise(BV)
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance(BW) happen to them all.(BX)

12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:

As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times(BY)
that fall unexpectedly upon them.(BZ)

Wisdom Better Than Folly

13 I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom(CA) that greatly impressed me: 14 There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. 15 Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.(CB) 16 So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.(CC)

17 The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouts of a ruler of fools.
18 Wisdom(CD) is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner destroys much good.

Footnotes:

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:18 Or will follow them both
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly
  3. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or over the human spirit to retain it, / and so
  4. Ecclesiastes 8:9 Or to their
  5. Ecclesiastes 8:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (Aquila); most Hebrew manuscripts and are forgotten
  6. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.
  7. Ecclesiastes 9:4 Or What then is to be chosen? With all who live, there is hope

Cross references:

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:1 : Pr 22:1; SS 1:3
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:1 : S Job 10:18
  3. Ecclesiastes 7:2 : S Pr 11:19
  4. Ecclesiastes 7:2 : S Ecc 2:14
  5. Ecclesiastes 7:3 : S Pr 14:13
  6. Ecclesiastes 7:4 : S Ecc 2:1; Jer 16:8
  7. Ecclesiastes 7:5 : S Pr 13:18; 15:31-32
  8. Ecclesiastes 7:6 : S Ps 58:9
  9. Ecclesiastes 7:6 : S Pr 14:13
  10. Ecclesiastes 7:7 : S Ex 18:21; S 23:8
  11. Ecclesiastes 7:8 : Pr 14:29
  12. Ecclesiastes 7:9 : S Mt 5:22
  13. Ecclesiastes 7:9 : S Pr 14:29
  14. Ecclesiastes 7:10 : S Ps 77:5
  15. Ecclesiastes 7:11 : Ecc 2:13
  16. Ecclesiastes 7:11 : Ecc 11:7
  17. Ecclesiastes 7:13 : Ecc 2:24
  18. Ecclesiastes 7:13 : Ecc 1:15
  19. Ecclesiastes 7:14 : S Job 1:21; S Ecc 2:24
  20. Ecclesiastes 7:15 : S Job 7:7
  21. Ecclesiastes 7:15 : S Job 21:7; Ecc 8:12-14; Jer 12:1
  22. Ecclesiastes 7:17 : Job 15:32
  23. Ecclesiastes 7:18 : S Ecc 3:14
  24. Ecclesiastes 7:19 : S Ecc 2:13
  25. Ecclesiastes 7:19 : S Pr 8:14
  26. Ecclesiastes 7:20 : S Ps 14:3
  27. Ecclesiastes 7:20 : S 2Ch 6:36; S Job 4:17; S Pr 20:9; Ro 3:12
  28. Ecclesiastes 7:21 : Pr 30:10
  29. Ecclesiastes 7:23 : S Ecc 1:17
  30. Ecclesiastes 7:24 : S Job 28:12
  31. Ecclesiastes 7:25 : S Job 28:3
  32. Ecclesiastes 7:25 : S Ecc 1:17
  33. Ecclesiastes 7:26 : S Ex 10:7; S Jdg 14:15
  34. Ecclesiastes 7:26 : S Pr 2:16-19; 5:3-5; S 7:23; 22:14
  35. Ecclesiastes 7:27 : S Ecc 1:1
  36. Ecclesiastes 7:28 : 1Ki 11:3
  37. Ecclesiastes 8:3 : Ecc 10:4
  38. Ecclesiastes 8:4 : Est 1:19
  39. Ecclesiastes 8:6 : Ecc 3:1
  40. Ecclesiastes 8:10 : S Ecc 1:11
  41. Ecclesiastes 8:12 : S Dt 12:28
  42. Ecclesiastes 8:12 : S Ex 1:20
  43. Ecclesiastes 8:12 : Ecc 3:14
  44. Ecclesiastes 8:13 : Ecc 3:14
  45. Ecclesiastes 8:13 : Dt 4:40; Job 5:26; Ps 34:12; Isa 65:20
  46. Ecclesiastes 8:14 : S Job 21:7
  47. Ecclesiastes 8:14 : S Ecc 7:15
  48. Ecclesiastes 8:15 : S Ps 42:8
  49. Ecclesiastes 8:15 : S Ex 32:6; S Ecc 2:3
  50. Ecclesiastes 8:15 : S Ecc 2:1
  51. Ecclesiastes 8:16 : S Ecc 1:17
  52. Ecclesiastes 8:16 : Ecc 1:13
  53. Ecclesiastes 8:17 : S Job 28:3
  54. Ecclesiastes 8:17 : S Job 28:23; Ro 11:33
  55. Ecclesiastes 9:1 : Ecc 10:14
  56. Ecclesiastes 9:2 : Job 9:22; Ecc 2:14
  57. Ecclesiastes 9:3 : S Job 9:22; S Ecc 2:14
  58. Ecclesiastes 9:3 : Jer 11:8; 13:10; 16:12; 17:9
  59. Ecclesiastes 9:3 : S Job 21:26
  60. Ecclesiastes 9:5 : S Job 14:21
  61. Ecclesiastes 9:5 : S Ps 9:6
  62. Ecclesiastes 9:5 : S Ecc 1:11
  63. Ecclesiastes 9:6 : S Job 21:21
  64. Ecclesiastes 9:7 : S Nu 6:20
  65. Ecclesiastes 9:7 : S Ecc 2:24
  66. Ecclesiastes 9:8 : S Rev 3:4
  67. Ecclesiastes 9:9 : S Pr 5:18
  68. Ecclesiastes 9:9 : S Job 31:2
  69. Ecclesiastes 9:10 : S 1Sa 10:7
  70. Ecclesiastes 9:10 : Ecc 11:6
  71. Ecclesiastes 9:10 : Nu 16:33; S Ps 6:5; Isa 38:18
  72. Ecclesiastes 9:10 : S Ecc 2:24
  73. Ecclesiastes 9:11 : Am 2:14-15
  74. Ecclesiastes 9:11 : Job 32:13; Isa 47:10; Jer 9:23
  75. Ecclesiastes 9:11 : Ecc 2:14
  76. Ecclesiastes 9:11 : S Dt 8:18
  77. Ecclesiastes 9:12 : S Pr 29:6
  78. Ecclesiastes 9:12 : S Ps 73:22; S Ecc 2:14
  79. Ecclesiastes 9:13 : S 2Sa 20:22
  80. Ecclesiastes 9:15 : S Ge 40:14; S Ecc 1:11
  81. Ecclesiastes 9:16 : Est 6:3
  82. Ecclesiastes 9:18 : S Ecc 2:13
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2 Corinthians 7:8-16

8 Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter,(A) I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while— 9 yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation(B) and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 11 See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern,(C) what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. 12 So even though I wrote to you,(D) it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong(E) nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are. 13 By all this we are encouraged.

In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus(F) was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. 14 I had boasted to him about you,(G) and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus(H) has proved to be true as well. 15 And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient,(I) receiving him with fear and trembling.(J) 16 I am glad I can have complete confidence in you.(K)

Cross references:

  1. 2 Corinthians 7:8 : 2Co 2:2, 4
  2. 2 Corinthians 7:10 : Ac 11:18
  3. 2 Corinthians 7:11 : ver 7
  4. 2 Corinthians 7:12 : ver 8; 2Co 2:3, 9
  5. 2 Corinthians 7:12 : 1Co 5:1, 2
  6. 2 Corinthians 7:13 : ver 6; S 2Co 2:13
  7. 2 Corinthians 7:14 : ver 4
  8. 2 Corinthians 7:14 : ver 6
  9. 2 Corinthians 7:15 : 2Co 2:9; 10:6
  10. 2 Corinthians 7:15 : Ps 55:5; 1Co 2:3; Php 2:12
  11. 2 Corinthians 7:16 : S 2Co 2:3
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Psalm 48

Psalm 48[a]

A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1 Great is the Lord,(A) and most worthy of praise,(B)
in the city of our God,(C) his holy mountain.(D)

2 Beautiful(E) in its loftiness,
the joy of the whole earth,
like the heights of Zaphon[b](F) is Mount Zion,(G)
the city of the Great King.(H)
3 God is in her citadels;(I)
he has shown himself to be her fortress.(J)

4 When the kings joined forces,
when they advanced together,(K)
5 they saw her and were astounded;
they fled in terror.(L)
6 Trembling seized(M) them there,
pain like that of a woman in labor.(N)
7 You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish(O)
shattered by an east wind.(P)

8 As we have heard,
so we have seen
in the city of the Lord Almighty,
in the city of our God:
God makes her secure
forever.[c](Q)

9 Within your temple, O God,
we meditate(R) on your unfailing love.(S)
10 Like your name,(T) O God,
your praise reaches to the ends of the earth;(U)
your right hand is filled with righteousness.
11 Mount Zion rejoices,
the villages of Judah are glad
because of your judgments.(V)

12 Walk about Zion, go around her,
count her towers,(W)
13 consider well her ramparts,(X)
view her citadels,(Y)
that you may tell of them
to the next generation.(Z)

14 For this God is our God for ever and ever;
he will be our guide(AA) even to the end.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 48:1 In Hebrew texts 48:1-14 is numbered 48:2-15.
  2. Psalm 48:2 Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.
  3. Psalm 48:8 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 48:1 : Ps 86:10; 96:4; 99:2; 135:5; 147:5; Jer 10:6
  2. Psalm 48:1 : S 2Sa 22:4; S 1Ch 16:25; Ps 18:3
  3. Psalm 48:1 : S Ps 46:4
  4. Psalm 48:1 : S Dt 33:19; Ps 2:6; 87:1; Isa 11:9; 32:16; Jer 31:23; Da 9:16; Mic 4:1; Zec 8:3
  5. Psalm 48:2 : Ps 50:2; La 2:15; Eze 16:14
  6. Psalm 48:2 : S Jos 13:27
  7. Psalm 48:2 : S Ps 2:6
  8. Psalm 48:2 : Mt 5:35
  9. Psalm 48:3 : ver 13; Ps 122:7
  10. Psalm 48:3 : Ps 18:2
  11. Psalm 48:4 : 2Sa 10:1-19
  12. Psalm 48:5 : Ex 15:16; Isa 13:8; Jer 46:5; Da 5:9
  13. Psalm 48:6 : S Job 4:14
  14. Psalm 48:6 : S Ge 3:16
  15. Psalm 48:7 : S Ge 10:4; S 1Ki 10:22; 22:48
  16. Psalm 48:7 : S Ge 41:6
  17. Psalm 48:8 : Jer 23:6; Zec 8:13; 14:11
  18. Psalm 48:9 : S Ps 39:3
  19. Psalm 48:9 : Ps 6:4
  20. Psalm 48:10 : S Ex 6:3; S Jos 7:9
  21. Psalm 48:10 : 1Sa 2:10; Ps 22:27; 65:5; 98:3; 100:1; Isa 11:12; 24:16; 42:10; 49:6
  22. Psalm 48:11 : Ps 97:8
  23. Psalm 48:12 : S Ne 3:1
  24. Psalm 48:13 : 2Sa 20:15; Isa 26:1; La 2:8; Hab 2:1
  25. Psalm 48:13 : S ver 3
  26. Psalm 48:13 : Ps 71:18; 78:6; 109:13
  27. Psalm 48:14 : Ps 25:5; 73:24; Pr 6:22; Isa 49:10; 57:18; 58:11
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Proverbs 22:17-19

Thirty Sayings of the Wise

Saying 1

17 Pay attention(A) and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;(B)
apply your heart to what I teach,(C)
18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart
and have all of them ready on your lips.
19 So that your trust may be in the Lord,
I teach you today, even you.

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 22:17 : S Pr 1:8
  2. Proverbs 22:17 : S Pr 1:6; 30:1; 31:1
  3. Proverbs 22:17 : S Pr 2:2
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09/03/2021 DAB Transcript

Ecclesiastes 4:1-6:12, 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:7, Psalms 47:1-9, Proverbs 22:16

Today is the 3rd day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you today. Yeah, we’re moving toward the end of the week still getting moved into a brand-new month working our way through a new book, the book of Ecclesiastes, which we talked about yesterday as a part of the grouping of books known as wisdom literature. And Solomon in Ecclesiastes is kind of giving us the lay of the land from the perspective of a person who has lived their life with no boundaries, going after and having access to whatever they could dream of and what that perspective brings when you’re older and looking back. So, Ecclesiastes 4, 5, and 6 today.

Commentary:

Okay, as we continue our journey through the book of Ecclesiastes, we are receiving cautionary wisdom. The book is articulating some things where we could be like, this is in the Bible? This is being said out…out loud out of the Bible? And it’s not that it’s so foreign or strange. It’s our experiences. We have experienced many of these things and come to these conclusions of, what am I doing all this for? What is the point of all of this? Where is all of this going? Where does this lead to? Why am I killing myself to do this? Those kinds of questions are things that we arrive at in exhaustion and frustration at times in our lives. It…it's…just…just that when we…we do encounter those kinds of situations we have friends around us that are giving us…feeding us Bible verses of encouragement and we’re doing the same thing to ourselves, which is fine, it’s just that Ecclesiastes is doing that. It’s letting it be kind of what it is so that it can be a cautionary offering of wisdom. So, let’s just look back at a couple of points of wisdom coming from the book of Ecclesiastes today. And I quote. “I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Right? So, this idea that we can one up or we need to stay in competition with each other, it does propel us forward, it does drive us but unto what? What do we get if we win? More stuff and less life? Ecclesiastes is saying this is kind of a…a pointless attempt. It’s meaningless. It’s like chasing the wind. Or “a dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.” Right? So, restless sleep when there is anxiety, and many many cares and obligations and responsibilities that they…they just keep being churned in our mind, even while we’re asleep. And, so, we wake up tired. I am a person…I have definitely experienced this in my life plenty of times. And it goes on to say, “many words mark the speech of a fool.” Right? So, the one that’s always gabbing, the one that’s always talking, the one that never listens, the one that never understands the value of silence, that marks the speech of a fool. Or this, “whoever loves money never has enough. Whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.” In other words, enough will never be enough. And that is cautionary and important wisdom because we’re hearing this wisdom from someone who had it all. And, so, this idea, if I could just achieve this place, if I could just arrive at a certain level of security, if I could just have this much than that will be enough because then the things that I want to do I can do. What we’re being told is once you get on that treadmill, it’s never going to be enough and in the end you accumulate a lot of stuff and chase the wind or miss life. Or this one. When God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them to accept their lot and be happy in their toil, this is a gift from God. They seldom reflect on the days of their life because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart. So, in other words, a person who is satisfied is a person who understands what they have has been given from God and accepting and appreciating that, having the ability to just enjoy where you are in the process. This is a gift of God. And those who have found that place, they’re not always out in front of themselves and they’re…they’re not always living in the past mistakes because they’re occupied with gladness of heart in the now. Wow! Could we…could we use that lesson. So, what we’re seeing is wisdom being dispensed and given to us in such a way that cautions us about the natural tendencies…tendencies we have to try to create an identity that when we reach the conclusion the closing chapters of our lives, we will look back and feel like we wasted so much time, that there was so much meaninglessness. This is wisdom being given to us in a cautionary way so that we get off that treadmill so that we don’t follow that path so that we find meaning in where we are right now instead of the hope for meaning in a future that we envision, that will still be in adequate when we get there because we will just need to go on to the next thing and never actually really truly and fully appreciate the gifts that are bestowed upon us by God that have less to do with accumulation and more to do with actually living.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You, of course, like every day, we invite You into what…what we’ve read, we invite and ask Your Holy Spirit to plant what we’ve read in our hearts and in our lives so that it will stick, so that it will become part of the fabric of who we are and so that the wisdom being offered to us can be heeded so that we can live an abundant life so that we can realize that what that looks like may be different than what our culture is trying to tell us. Come Holy Spirit. May we find satisfaction and contentment in You we pray. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Good afternoon Daily Audio Bible family my name is Josh from Omaha. I just wanted to call in today after attending a funeral of a young man a 53-year-old man. I was prompted to just call him the day before he passed away and I didn’t. Again, I was prompted two weeks ago to call in an I didn’t hear it and I’m doing it today. My daughter went to school at Creighton University and had an anxiety attack. And since then, we’ve gone…come to find out that so many young men and women are facing the same thing especially now in our nation today. And we just want to come against the spirit of fear and anxiety, and we want to cast that out. And if you want to join me in the prayer today, I’d really appreciate it. My daughter’s name is Emily and I just want to pray for anybody and everybody that’s in our nation today, that they would be free of anxiety. So, would you please join me in prayer? Dear Jesus, we just come against the spirit of the evil one today and I call out him and I ask in Your name Jesus would You just call out anxiety, fear, angst, depression, panic, pain, and suffering and that You would crush them underneath Your feet in Jesus’ name. And I just put a call in and say that you have no hold on our children or adults today or ever from this day on and I cast them out and I pronounce that the battle is won in Jesus’ name. Amen.

My name is Dora and I want…can you please pray for me because I…I am scared and I…I don’t want to be scared and I want to believe that God is with me every time I go…

Hello, DABbers this is God’s Chosen from Georgia. I’m calling in to ask for prayer for all medical workers in different capacities. Pray for God’s protection over them. Pray that God almighty would give them wisdom as to discharge their duties. Pray that God will give them compassion. We pray also, that in everything they do they will see the love of God and the peace that He gives. Pray also for all patients, those whose bodies are wrapped up with pain, those who are dealing with cancer, those who are dealing with terrible diseases and so many others whose conditions are beyond repair. Please pray that God will visit them in a divine way and pray for peace all over the world. We all need Jesus. So, come and save us from all the chaos, the uncertainty, and the decay of the society. Pray that peace would reign, that God will have compassion over all His children.

Hey DAB it’s Emmy from Illinois I’m just calling asking for prayer for my dad. He is a retired pastor about to turn 80 this week and has had COVID the last two weeks and was put on a ventilator yesterday. There are thousands of people that he has touched over the years that are praying for him but I’m asking for additional prayer support from my DAB family. I am 28 weeks pregnant and would really love for my dad to meet my baby. So, if you could just pray for that. Also, I’m on my way right now to get my glucose test done for pregnancy. And while I’m not concerned just based on my overall health, but still a little nervous about the idea of having to deal with gestational diabetes. So, if you could just pray. I know that you will get this long after the test is done but just pray for healing in that way as…well…not healing but that I be healthy with that as well. And then just lastly just continued prayers for my marriage and that this baby and just life would settle, and my husband would reach back out to God, find satisfaction and contentment in God. Thank you.

Hi DAB community this is Jeanette from Denmark I wanna send a great big thank you for this continuing DAB ministry. I’m in my 11th year of listening. I was originally from the States and when I began, I really wanted something for my faith also in English that would keep my heart going. It’s a little bit difficult when you’re an expatriate. My husband started listening about four years ago and right now he’s moved on to the chronological reading. He loves being able to listen in the quiet hours in the morning of the afternoon and we’ve been really blessed by the prayer time. We…we have a community of people who are strong believers here in Denmark. And you guys, we remember you in our prayers so much because there are strong heart ties between Denmark and the United States in the faith community. We love you so much and we want you to know that God is with you. No matter what is going on He is constantly with you and loves you so dearly. He loves us and He loves you and we are as the body of Christ with Christ at the head and Jesus a powerful God. He walked here He was resurrected from the dead and He indeed is coming for his people as well, the bride of Christ. We love you very much. Remember you are a part of something big and it’s going to be wonderful. We love you.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Friday September 3, 2021 (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 4-6

Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness

4 Again I looked and saw all the oppression(A) that was taking place under the sun:

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
and they have no comforter.(B)
2 And I declared that the dead,(C)
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.(D)
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,(E)
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.(F)

4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(G)

5 Fools fold their hands(H)
and ruin themselves.
6 Better one handful with tranquillity
than two handfuls with toil(I)
and chasing after the wind.

7 Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:

8 There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content(J) with his wealth.
“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
“and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!

9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Advancement Is Meaningless

13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. 14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. 15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor. 16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Fulfill Your Vow to God

5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

2 Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.(K)
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.(L)
3 A dream(M) comes when there are many cares,
and many words mark the speech of a fool.(N)

4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it.(O) He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow.(P) 5 It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.(Q) 6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, “My vow was a mistake.” Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands? 7 Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.(R)

Riches Are Meaningless

8 If you see the poor oppressed(S) in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. 9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.

10 Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.

11 As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?

12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.(T)

13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:(U)

wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14 or wealth lost through some misfortune,
so that when they have children
there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.(V)
They take nothing from their toil(W)
that they can carry in their hands.(X)

16 This too is a grievous evil:

As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?(Y)
17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.

18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink(Z) and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor(AA) under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot. 19 Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions,(AB) and the ability to enjoy them,(AC) to accept their lot(AD) and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.(AE) 20 They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.(AF)

6 I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: 2 God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them,(AG) and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.(AH)

3 A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(AI) child is better off than he.(AJ) 4 It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. 5 Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man— 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?(AK)

7 Everyone’s toil is for their mouth,
yet their appetite is never satisfied.(AL)
8 What advantage have the wise over fools?(AM)
What do the poor gain
by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
9 Better what the eye sees
than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
a chasing after the wind.(AN)

10 Whatever exists has already been named,(AO)
and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
with someone who is stronger.
11 The more the words,
the less the meaning,
and how does that profit anyone?

12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(AP) they pass through like a shadow?(AQ) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

Footnotes:

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.

Cross references:

  1. Ecclesiastes 4:1 : S Ps 12:5
  2. Ecclesiastes 4:1 : La 1:16
  3. Ecclesiastes 4:2 : Jer 20:17-18; 22:10
  4. Ecclesiastes 4:2 : S Job 3:17; S 10:18
  5. Ecclesiastes 4:3 : S Job 3:16
  6. Ecclesiastes 4:3 : S Job 3:22
  7. Ecclesiastes 4:4 : S Ecc 1:14
  8. Ecclesiastes 4:5 : S Pr 6:10
  9. Ecclesiastes 4:6 : Pr 15:16-17; S 16:8
  10. Ecclesiastes 4:8 : Pr 27:20
  11. Ecclesiastes 5:2 : S Jdg 11:35
  12. Ecclesiastes 5:2 : S Job 6:24; S Pr 20:25
  13. Ecclesiastes 5:3 : S Job 20:8
  14. Ecclesiastes 5:3 : Ecc 10:14
  15. Ecclesiastes 5:4 : S Dt 23:21; S Jdg 11:35; Ps 119:60
  16. Ecclesiastes 5:4 : S Nu 30:2; Ps 66:13-14
  17. Ecclesiastes 5:5 : Nu 30:2-4; Jnh 2:9
  18. Ecclesiastes 5:7 : Ecc 3:14
  19. Ecclesiastes 5:8 : S Ps 12:5
  20. Ecclesiastes 5:12 : Job 20:20
  21. Ecclesiastes 5:13 : Ecc 6:1-2
  22. Ecclesiastes 5:15 : S Job 1:21
  23. Ecclesiastes 5:15 : Ps 49:17; 1Ti 6:7
  24. Ecclesiastes 5:15 : Ecc 1:3
  25. Ecclesiastes 5:16 : S Ecc 1:3
  26. Ecclesiastes 5:18 : S Ecc 2:3
  27. Ecclesiastes 5:18 : Ecc 2:10, 24
  28. Ecclesiastes 5:19 : S 1Ch 29:12
  29. Ecclesiastes 5:19 : Ecc 6:2
  30. Ecclesiastes 5:19 : S Job 31:2
  31. Ecclesiastes 5:19 : S Ecc 2:24
  32. Ecclesiastes 5:20 : S Dt 12:7, 18
  33. Ecclesiastes 6:2 : Ecc 5:19
  34. Ecclesiastes 6:2 : Ecc 5:13
  35. Ecclesiastes 6:3 : S Job 3:16
  36. Ecclesiastes 6:3 : S Job 3:3
  37. Ecclesiastes 6:6 : Ecc 2:14
  38. Ecclesiastes 6:7 : S Pr 27:20
  39. Ecclesiastes 6:8 : S Ecc 2:15
  40. Ecclesiastes 6:9 : S Ecc 1:14
  41. Ecclesiastes 6:10 : Ecc 3:15
  42. Ecclesiastes 6:12 : S Job 10:20; S 20:8
  43. Ecclesiastes 6:12 : S 1Ch 29:15; S Job 14:2; S Ps 39:6
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2 Corinthians 6:14-7:7

Warning Against Idolatry

14 Do not be yoked together(A) with unbelievers.(B) For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?(C) 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[a]?(D) Or what does a believer(E) have in common with an unbeliever?(F) 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?(G) For we are the temple(H) of the living God.(I) As God has said:

“I will live with them
and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they will be my people.”[b](J)

17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(K)
and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you.”[c](L)

18 And,

“I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters,(M)
says the Lord Almighty.”[d](N)

7 Therefore, since we have these promises,(O) dear friends,(P) let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness(Q) out of reverence for God.

Paul’s Joy Over the Church’s Repentance

2 Make room for us in your hearts.(R) We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts(S) that we would live or die with you. 4 I have spoken to you with great frankness; I take great pride in you.(T) I am greatly encouraged;(U) in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.(V)

5 For when we came into Macedonia,(W) we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn(X)—conflicts on the outside, fears within.(Y) 6 But God, who comforts the downcast,(Z) comforted us by the coming of Titus,(AA) 7 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever.

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar, a variant of Belial
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:16 Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41
  4. 2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8

Cross references:

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 : Ge 24:3; Dt 22:10; 1Co 5:9, 10
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:14 : 1Co 6:6
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:14 : Eph 5:7, 11; 1Jn 1:6
  4. 2 Corinthians 6:15 : 1Co 10:21
  5. 2 Corinthians 6:15 : Ac 5:14
  6. 2 Corinthians 6:15 : 1Co 6:6
  7. 2 Corinthians 6:16 : 1Co 10:21
  8. 2 Corinthians 6:16 : S 1Co 3:16
  9. 2 Corinthians 6:16 : S Mt 16:16
  10. 2 Corinthians 6:16 : Lev 26:12; Jer 32:38; Eze 37:27; Rev 21:3
  11. 2 Corinthians 6:17 : Rev 18:4
  12. 2 Corinthians 6:17 : Isa 52:11; Eze 20:34, 41
  13. 2 Corinthians 6:18 : Ex 4:22; 2Sa 7:14; 1Ch 17:13; Isa 43:6; S Ro 8:14
  14. 2 Corinthians 6:18 : 2Sa 7:8
  15. 2 Corinthians 7:1 : 2Co 6:17, 18
  16. 2 Corinthians 7:1 : S 1Co 10:14
  17. 2 Corinthians 7:1 : 1Th 4:7; 1Pe 1:15, 16
  18. 2 Corinthians 7:2 : 2Co 6:12, 13
  19. 2 Corinthians 7:3 : 2Co 6:11, 12; Php 1:7
  20. 2 Corinthians 7:4 : ver 14; 2Co 8:24
  21. 2 Corinthians 7:4 : ver 13
  22. 2 Corinthians 7:4 : S 2Co 6:10
  23. 2 Corinthians 7:5 : 2Co 2:13; S Ac 16:9
  24. 2 Corinthians 7:5 : 2Co 4:8
  25. 2 Corinthians 7:5 : Dt 32:25
  26. 2 Corinthians 7:6 : 2Co 1:3, 4
  27. 2 Corinthians 7:6 : ver 13; S 2Co 2:13
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Psalm 47

Psalm 47[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

1 Clap your hands,(A) all you nations;
shout to God with cries of joy.(B)

2 For the Lord Most High(C) is awesome,(D)
the great King(E) over all the earth.
3 He subdued(F) nations under us,
peoples under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance(G) for us,
the pride of Jacob,(H) whom he loved.[b]

5 God has ascended(I) amid shouts of joy,(J)
the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets.(K)
6 Sing praises(L) to God, sing praises;
sing praises to our King, sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth;(M)
sing to him a psalm(N) of praise.

8 God reigns(O) over the nations;
God is seated on his holy throne.(P)
9 The nobles of the nations assemble
as the people of the God of Abraham,
for the kings[c] of the earth belong to God;(Q)
he is greatly exalted.(R)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 47:1 In Hebrew texts 47:1-9 is numbered 47:2-10.
  2. Psalm 47:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
  3. Psalm 47:9 Or shields

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 47:1 : S 2Ki 11:12
  2. Psalm 47:1 : S Ps 33:3
  3. Psalm 47:2 : Ge 14:18
  4. Psalm 47:2 : S Dt 7:21
  5. Psalm 47:2 : Ps 2:6; 48:2; 95:3; Mt 5:35
  6. Psalm 47:3 : Ps 18:39, 47; Isa 14:6
  7. Psalm 47:4 : Ps 2:8; 16:6; 78:55; 1Pe 1:4
  8. Psalm 47:4 : Am 6:8; 8:7
  9. Psalm 47:5 : Ps 68:18; Eph 4:8
  10. Psalm 47:5 : S Job 8:21; S Ps 106:5
  11. Psalm 47:5 : S Nu 10:2; S 2Sa 6:15
  12. Psalm 47:6 : S 2Sa 22:50
  13. Psalm 47:7 : Zec 14:9
  14. Psalm 47:7 : 1Ch 16:7; Col 3:16
  15. Psalm 47:8 : S 1Ch 16:31
  16. Psalm 47:8 : S 1Ki 22:19; S Ps 9:4; Rev 4:9
  17. Psalm 47:9 : S Job 25:2
  18. Psalm 47:9 : Ps 46:10; 97:9
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Proverbs 22:16

16 One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

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9/02/2021 DAB Transcript

Ecclesiastes 1:1-3:22, 2 Corinthians 6:1-13, Psalm 46:1-11, Proverbs 22:15

Today is the 2nd day of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian. It’s awesome to be here with you today as we gather and find our place around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together and we’ve just stepped into a new month, but we are also stepping into a brand-new book in the Bible today. The book of Ecclesiastes, having finished the book of Job yesterday and Job and Ecclesiastes, as well as Proverbs and Song of Solomon and some of the Psalms, these are part of a grouping of books in the Scriptures known as wisdom literature. That’s where we are camping out of this portion of the year as we move through. And this new book. Ecclesiastes, traditionally is ascribed to Solomon. But that’s like so many other things in the Scriptures have been debated. A likely scenario is that this work did originate with Solomon and was updated and modified and translated and brought forward and modernized through time as…as the Scriptures have been, as they’ve been ported into new languages and all of the different meanings of different words have been debated and wrestled with, Ecclesiastes would be no different. So, Solomon we remember…remember King David and then his son Solomon, and he led ancient Israel to its greatest hour: the building of the temple, peace and prosperity on all sides, wisdom flowing among the people. So, we’ll notice that getting into Ecclesiastes is very different than what we might expect from one of the greatest people who ever lived, because in some ways it’s like depressing rant. But if we have a little bit of context, it’s really a deeply penetrating look into the human heart, into our own hearts because everybody has goals and dreams, right, aspirations, things we would like to achieve. And, we even have kind of far-fetched like oh pie-in-the-sky kind of stuff that we probably will never do. But Solomon didn’t have that issue. Solomon had the opposite. He had everything, everything he could possibly imagine or think of he could have. So, we get this perspective from a person who has essentially done it all and seen it all, nothing was off-limits, anything he wanted to pursue he could pursue. And, Ecclesiastes is kind of a look back over it all. And the person who’s done and seen it all, concludes that all of it can be completely meaningless. It can be chasing the wind, it can be something that you, can never be full, that there can never be enough and when you’ve accumulated it all then what do you have? Most people would be like yeah, I would like to have that problem. I would like to find out for myself. But few people ever achieve that, Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes gives us a perspective from that place, and ironically, it’s not a bunch of self-worship and look how great I am and look at all of my stuff and glory over all of my achievements. It’s just a very, very different perspective than that and so this does come at a good time for us after the book of Job, after we’ve wrestled with suffering and moved through that territory to now come into some territory where we consider what would it be like if everything I ever wanted, what if I got everything I ever wanted. Would I be full? Would I be whole? Would I be complete? And so, let’s drink in together the book of Ecclesiastes. Today we will read chapters 1, 2 and 3; we’re reading from the New International Version this week.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for this new territory that we’re moving into not only in the new month but in this new book Ecclesiastes. We invite Your Holy Spirit into our time interacting with Ecclesiastes and also looking at what is driving us, what is motivating us in different we get everything that is driving and motivating us, what do have will, will we be full, how can we appreciate the journey, paying attention to it as the days go by, appreciating what You have given us, appreciating what we have. Holy Spirit, we invite You to come into the questions that arise and the postures of our hearts, motivations of our actions and our thoughts and words. Come Jesus we pray in your mighty name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey Daily Audio Bible family, this is Kat in Texas. I’ve been listening since January of 2013. I’m a Double DABer. I don’t call in very often but I pray along with the Prayer Requests everyday and whether you call in or not, I lift you up in prayer. I don’t know your names but God always knows our names. I’m sitting in a hospital parking lot in Austin, Texas. My husband’s inside the hospital with his mom and his sister and it looks like his dad is gonna pass away. So, can you please put them and our family up in prayers. Thank you so much. I love you all.

Hi DAB friends, hope ya’ll are having a great day. I wanted to reach out and ask you if you would pray for my sister. I want to remain anonymous but I still wanted to reach out and ask for prayer. She’s been really battling with her mental health over the last year. She’s a wonderful believer and she actually is the first person that shared about Jesus with me and prayed for me to become a Christian also. So, she’s just got a huge place in my heart and it’s so hard to see her struggling the way she is and she’s gotten help over the last year but it’s been a bit up and down. We thought that she was doing better but her husband and I are getting a bit concerned. She seems likes she’s going downhill again but isn’t really aware of it and we’re just not really sure what to do. So, if you could please pray with us for her to have, for Jesus to give her a sound mind for Him to heal her depression and anxiety. For her to have peaceful sleep and just for her to be healed in the name of Jesus. So, thank you so much for praying with us, love you all. Bye.

Hello, Daily Audio Bible family I’m a first-time caller, Lou from Utah and I just need your prayers. A little over a week ago my sweetheart of 38 years took his own life. And he had been suffering with nerve pain and terrible panic attacks for a long, long time. He had a industrial accident 24 years ago and he has had pain ever since. Well, he just reached the point where he was just so done with pain. The kids and I, three kids, grown with their own kids. Their all trying to grapple with this and it’s hard. One minute you’re feeling one way and the next minute you feel another way and you wonder if you’re ever gonna feel kind of normal again. Just need your prayers for my family to find peace from this traumatic shock. And to be able to go on and serve our Lord without having a big wound. And I know you’ll pray for me cause I’ve been listening to you guys pray for others forever and your so faithful. I would appreciate it. God bless this Daily Audio Bible. Bye Bye.

Hi, this is GoldBerry from Sequwuachi County, Tennessee and I’m calling for Carmen. I’m so sorry for the lose of your son. I wanted to encourage you with a scripture from Psalm 27 I will remain confident of this I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. My daughter had a baby in February of 2020 and he died about 30 minutes after he was born and she lost another baby to miscarriage almost exactly a year later. And so I understand the grief and I know that it can be ongoing but I just wanted to encourage you that the Lord’s presence is with us even if our questions aren’t answered not so unlike Job. We can have his presence but we don’t always get the answer to the why. But stay with Him and walk with Him in your pain.  And don’t listen to the people around you who think you should be over it. I think it takes a lifetime to grieve something like that. Thank you to Renzo for your continued calls and prayers on the behalf of other DABers. And Jonathan, who called requesting for prayer, you are not disgusting, you have a beautiful vulnerable heart and your request for prayers will not go unheard. May God Bless you and keep you as you aspire to walk with Him and may God give you peace and mercy and grace without shame. God Bless you.

Hello DAB this is People on the Water from Indiana. Just wanted to call in really fast and just mention some people. There was a women who was waking up early to help her brothers take care of her parents, quick story short, come on, she was trying to help her dad and really see if he knew who Christ was and just share the Gospel with him. She’s been waking up early for work so she has a lot on her plate Lord. I’m not praying that you would take that away but I’m praying that you would give her wisdom in order to deal with that. Secondly, Jonathan from Denver, he stayed away from porn for a good amount of time. Dude, let’s go man, come on, come and he was praying for someone else. You know, I was thinking, you know, God very well may and is in the position to use that last time that you viewed pornography, that that may very well be your last time, just kind of encouraging on that. Okay, a man called him about his friend of 20 years and he was 82 years old and he was just praying for him and COVID and what not. Then the Harvey family whose also been introduced to this COVID and that was Terry the Trucker. I’m just praying for them; I’m lifting you up. Slave of Jesus in NC, I realize that you are the person that say’s “all right Holy Spirit let’s roll” and I just really like that. Okay, I got like 20 seconds left, okay, new people who are coming on DAB, thank you for coming on, welcome. I hope that me talking fast isn’t like anything bad to you, and lastly there was this person Dave from Pennsylvania sang a song and I just want to say that was cool okay bye.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Thursday September 2, 2021 (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 1-3

Everything Is Meaningless

1 The words of the Teacher,[a](A) son of David, king in Jerusalem:(B)

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(C)

3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?(D)
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.(E)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.(F)
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.(G)
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(H)
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;(I)
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,(J)
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.(K)

Wisdom Is Meaningless

12 I, the Teacher,(L) was king over Israel in Jerusalem.(M) 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(N) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(O) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(P)

15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(Q)
what is lacking cannot be counted.

16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me;(R) I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(S) and also of madness and folly,(T) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;(U)
the more knowledge, the more grief.(V)

Pleasures Are Meaningless

2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure(W) to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 “Laughter,”(X) I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” 3 I tried cheering myself with wine,(Y) and embracing folly(Z)—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.

4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself(AA) and planted vineyards.(AB) 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves(AC) who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold(AD) for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.(AE) I acquired male and female singers,(AF) and a harem[b] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(AG) before me.(AH) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;(AI)
nothing was gained under the sun.(AJ)

Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.(AK)
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?(AL)
13 I saw that wisdom(AM) is better than folly,(AN)
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.(AO)

15 Then I said to myself,

“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”(AP)
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(AQ)
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(AR)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(AS)

Toil Is Meaningless

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(AT) 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(AU) 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?(AV) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(AW) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(AX) even at night their minds do not rest.(AY) This too is meaningless.

24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink(AZ) and find satisfaction in their own toil.(BA) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,(BB) 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?(BC) 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(BD) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(BE) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(BF) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

A Time for Everything

3 There is a time(BG) for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,(BH)
3 a time to kill(BI) and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent(BJ) and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil?(BK) 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(BL) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(BM) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[c] no one can fathom(BN) what God has done from beginning to end.(BO) 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink,(BP) and find satisfaction(BQ) in all their toil—this is the gift of God.(BR) 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.(BS)

15 Whatever is has already been,(BT)
and what will be has been before;(BU)
and God will call the past to account.[d]

16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment(BV)
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”(BW)

18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(BX) 19 Surely the fate of human beings(BY) is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[e]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(BZ) 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward(CA) and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work,(CB) because that is their lot.(CC) For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

Footnotes:

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1 Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 2 and 12
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
  3. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
  4. Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past
  5. Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit

Cross references:

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1 : ver 12; Ecc 7:27; 12:10
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:1 : S Pr 1:1
  3. Ecclesiastes 1:2 : Ps 39:5-6; 62:9; Ecc 12:8; Ro 8:20-21
  4. Ecclesiastes 1:3 : Ecc 2:11, 22; 3:9; 5:15-16
  5. Ecclesiastes 1:4 : S Job 8:19
  6. Ecclesiastes 1:5 : Ps 19:5-6
  7. Ecclesiastes 1:7 : Job 36:28
  8. Ecclesiastes 1:8 : Pr 27:20
  9. Ecclesiastes 1:9 : Ecc 2:12; 3:15
  10. Ecclesiastes 1:11 : Ge 40:23; Ecc 9:15
  11. Ecclesiastes 1:11 : Ps 88:12; Ecc 2:16; 8:10; 9:5
  12. Ecclesiastes 1:12 : S ver 1
  13. Ecclesiastes 1:12 : Ecc 2:9
  14. Ecclesiastes 1:13 : S Job 28:3
  15. Ecclesiastes 1:13 : S Ge 3:17; Ecc 3:10
  16. Ecclesiastes 1:14 : Ecc 2:11, 17; 4:4; 6:9
  17. Ecclesiastes 1:15 : Ecc 7:13
  18. Ecclesiastes 1:16 : S 1Ki 3:12
  19. Ecclesiastes 1:17 : Ecc 7:23; 8:16
  20. Ecclesiastes 1:17 : Ecc 2:3, 12; 7:25
  21. Ecclesiastes 1:18 : Jer 45:3
  22. Ecclesiastes 1:18 : Ecc 2:23; 12:12
  23. Ecclesiastes 2:1 : ver 24; Ecc 7:4; 8:15
  24. Ecclesiastes 2:2 : S Pr 14:13
  25. Ecclesiastes 2:3 : ver 24-25; S Jdg 9:13; Ru 3:3; Ecc 3:12-13; 5:18; 8:15
  26. Ecclesiastes 2:3 : S Ecc 1:17
  27. Ecclesiastes 2:4 : 2Ch 2:1; 8:1-6
  28. Ecclesiastes 2:4 : SS 8:11
  29. Ecclesiastes 2:7 : 2Ch 8:7-8
  30. Ecclesiastes 2:8 : S 1Ki 9:28
  31. Ecclesiastes 2:8 : S Jdg 3:15
  32. Ecclesiastes 2:8 : S 2Sa 19:35
  33. Ecclesiastes 2:9 : Ecc 1:12
  34. Ecclesiastes 2:9 : 1Ch 29:25
  35. Ecclesiastes 2:11 : S Ecc 1:14
  36. Ecclesiastes 2:11 : S Ecc 1:3
  37. Ecclesiastes 2:12 : S Ecc 1:17
  38. Ecclesiastes 2:12 : S Ecc 1:9
  39. Ecclesiastes 2:13 : Ecc 7:19; 9:18
  40. Ecclesiastes 2:13 : Ecc 7:11-12
  41. Ecclesiastes 2:14 : Ps 49:10; Ecc 3:19; 6:6; 7:2; 9:3, 11-12
  42. Ecclesiastes 2:15 : ver 19; Ecc 6:8
  43. Ecclesiastes 2:16 : S Ps 112:6
  44. Ecclesiastes 2:16 : S Ecc 1:11
  45. Ecclesiastes 2:16 : Ps 49:10
  46. Ecclesiastes 2:17 : S Ecc 1:14
  47. Ecclesiastes 2:18 : Ps 39:6; 49:10
  48. Ecclesiastes 2:19 : S ver 15
  49. Ecclesiastes 2:22 : S Ecc 1:3
  50. Ecclesiastes 2:23 : S Ecc 1:18
  51. Ecclesiastes 2:23 : S Ge 3:17; S Job 7:2
  52. Ecclesiastes 2:24 : ver 3; 1Co 15:32
  53. Ecclesiastes 2:24 : S ver 1; Ecc 3:22
  54. Ecclesiastes 2:24 : S Job 2:10; Ecc 3:12-13; 5:17-19; 7:14; 9:7-10; 11:7-10
  55. Ecclesiastes 2:25 : S Ps 127:2
  56. Ecclesiastes 2:26 : S Job 9:4
  57. Ecclesiastes 2:26 : S Job 27:17
  58. Ecclesiastes 2:26 : S Pr 13:22
  59. Ecclesiastes 3:1 : ver 11, 17; Ecc 8:6
  60. Ecclesiastes 3:2 : Isa 28:24
  61. Ecclesiastes 3:3 : S Dt 5:17
  62. Ecclesiastes 3:7 : S Est 4:14
  63. Ecclesiastes 3:9 : S Ecc 1:3
  64. Ecclesiastes 3:10 : S Ecc 1:13
  65. Ecclesiastes 3:11 : S ver 1
  66. Ecclesiastes 3:11 : S Job 11:7
  67. Ecclesiastes 3:11 : S Job 28:23; Ro 11:33
  68. Ecclesiastes 3:13 : Ecc 2:3
  69. Ecclesiastes 3:13 : Ps 34:12
  70. Ecclesiastes 3:13 : S Dt 12:7, 18; S Ecc 2:24
  71. Ecclesiastes 3:14 : S Job 23:15; Ecc 5:7; 7:18; 8:12-13
  72. Ecclesiastes 3:15 : Ecc 6:10
  73. Ecclesiastes 3:15 : S Ecc 1:9
  74. Ecclesiastes 3:17 : S Job 19:29; Ecc 11:9; 12:14
  75. Ecclesiastes 3:17 : ver 1
  76. Ecclesiastes 3:18 : S Ps 73:22
  77. Ecclesiastes 3:19 : S Ecc 2:14
  78. Ecclesiastes 3:20 : S Ge 2:7; S Job 34:15
  79. Ecclesiastes 3:21 : Ecc 12:7
  80. Ecclesiastes 3:22 : S Ecc 2:24
  81. Ecclesiastes 3:22 : S Job 31:2
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2 Corinthians 6:1-13

6 As God’s co-workers(A) we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.(B) 2 For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”[a](C)

I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Paul’s Hardships

3 We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path,(D) so that our ministry will not be discredited. 4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5 in beatings, imprisonments(E) and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;(F) 6 in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit(G) and in sincere love;(H) 7 in truthful speech(I) and in the power of God;(J) with weapons of righteousness(K) in the right hand and in the left; 8 through glory and dishonor,(L) bad report(M) and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors;(N) 9 known, yet regarded as unknown; dying,(O) and yet we live on;(P) beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;(Q) poor, yet making many rich;(R) having nothing,(S) and yet possessing everything.(T)

11 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you.(U) 12 We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. 13 As a fair exchange—I speak as to my children(V)—open wide your hearts(W) also.

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:2 Isaiah 49:8

Cross references:

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:1 : S 1Co 3:9; 2Co 5:20
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:1 : 1Co 15:2
  3. 2 Corinthians 6:2 : Isa 49:8; Ps 69:13; Isa 55:6
  4. 2 Corinthians 6:3 : S Mt 5:29; Ro 14:13, 20; 1Co 8:9, 13; 9:12; 10:32
  5. 2 Corinthians 6:5 : Ac 16:23; 2Co 11:23-25
  6. 2 Corinthians 6:5 : 1Co 4:11
  7. 2 Corinthians 6:6 : 1Co 2:4; 1Th 1:5
  8. 2 Corinthians 6:6 : Ro 12:9; 1Ti 1:5
  9. 2 Corinthians 6:7 : 2Co 4:2
  10. 2 Corinthians 6:7 : 2Co 4:7
  11. 2 Corinthians 6:7 : Ro 13:12; 2Co 10:4; Eph 6:10-18
  12. 2 Corinthians 6:8 : 1Co 4:10
  13. 2 Corinthians 6:8 : 1Co 4:13
  14. 2 Corinthians 6:8 : Mt 27:63
  15. 2 Corinthians 6:9 : S Ro 8:36
  16. 2 Corinthians 6:9 : 2Co 1:8-10; 4:10, 11
  17. 2 Corinthians 6:10 : S Mt 5:12; 2Co 7:4; Php 2:17; 4:4; Col 1:24; 1Th 1:6
  18. 2 Corinthians 6:10 : 2Co 8:9
  19. 2 Corinthians 6:10 : Ac 3:6
  20. 2 Corinthians 6:10 : Ro 8:32; 1Co 3:21
  21. 2 Corinthians 6:11 : 2Co 7:3
  22. 2 Corinthians 6:13 : S 1Th 2:11
  23. 2 Corinthians 6:13 : 2Co 7:2
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Psalm 46

Psalm 46[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[b] A song.

1 God is our refuge(A) and strength,(B)
an ever-present(C) help(D) in trouble.(E)
2 Therefore we will not fear,(F) though the earth give way(G)
and the mountains fall(H) into the heart of the sea,(I)
3 though its waters roar(J) and foam(K)
and the mountains quake(L) with their surging.[c]

4 There is a river(M) whose streams(N) make glad the city of God,(O)
the holy place where the Most High(P) dwells.(Q)
5 God is within her,(R) she will not fall;(S)
God will help(T) her at break of day.
6 Nations(U) are in uproar,(V) kingdoms(W) fall;
he lifts his voice,(X) the earth melts.(Y)

7 The Lord Almighty(Z) is with us;(AA)
the God of Jacob(AB) is our fortress.(AC)

8 Come and see what the Lord has done,(AD)
the desolations(AE) he has brought on the earth.
9 He makes wars(AF) cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow(AG) and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.(AH)
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;(AI)
I will be exalted(AJ) among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

11 The Lord Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob(AK) is our fortress.(AL)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 46:1 In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.
  2. Psalm 46:1 Title: Probably a musical term
  3. Psalm 46:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.
  4. Psalm 46:9 Or chariots

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 46:1 : Ps 9:9; 37:39; 61:3; 73:26; 91:2, 9; 142:5; Isa 33:16; Jer 16:19; 17:17; Joel 3:16; Na 1:7
  2. Psalm 46:1 : Ps 18:1
  3. Psalm 46:1 : Ps 34:18; La 3:57
  4. Psalm 46:1 : Ps 18:6; Lk 1:54
  5. Psalm 46:1 : S Dt 4:30; Ps 25:17
  6. Psalm 46:2 : S Ge 4:7; Ps 3:6
  7. Psalm 46:2 : Ps 82:5; Isa 13:13; 24:1, 19, 20; Jer 4:23; Da 11:19; Am 8:14; S Rev 6:14
  8. Psalm 46:2 : ver 6; Ps 18:7; 97:5; Isa 54:10; Am 9:5; Mic 1:4; Na 1:5; Hab 3:6
  9. Psalm 46:2 : Ex 15:8
  10. Psalm 46:3 : Ps 93:3; Isa 17:13; Jer 5:22; Eze 1:24; Rev 19:6
  11. Psalm 46:3 : S Job 9:26
  12. Psalm 46:3 : S Jdg 5:5
  13. Psalm 46:4 : S Ge 2:10; Rev 22:1
  14. Psalm 46:4 : S Ps 1:3
  15. Psalm 46:4 : Ps 48:1, 8; 87:3; 101:8; Rev 3:12
  16. Psalm 46:4 : Ge 14:18
  17. Psalm 46:4 : S 2Sa 15:25
  18. Psalm 46:5 : Dt 23:14; S Ps 26:8; Isa 12:6; Zec 2:5
  19. Psalm 46:5 : Ps 125:1
  20. Psalm 46:5 : S 1Ch 5:20
  21. Psalm 46:6 : S Job 12:23
  22. Psalm 46:6 : Ps 74:23; Isa 5:30; 17:12
  23. Psalm 46:6 : Ps 68:32; 102:22; Isa 13:4, 13; 23:11; Eze 26:18; Mt 4:8
  24. Psalm 46:6 : S Ps 29:3; Isa 33:3
  25. Psalm 46:6 : S ver 2
  26. Psalm 46:7 : S 1Sa 1:11
  27. Psalm 46:7 : S Ge 21:22
  28. Psalm 46:7 : S Ps 20:1
  29. Psalm 46:7 : ver 11; Ps 18:2
  30. Psalm 46:8 : Ps 66:5
  31. Psalm 46:8 : Isa 17:9; 64:10; Da 9:26; Lk 21:20
  32. Psalm 46:9 : Isa 2:4
  33. Psalm 46:9 : S Ps 37:15; S Isa 22:6
  34. Psalm 46:9 : Isa 9:5; Eze 39:9; Hos 2:18
  35. Psalm 46:10 : Dt 4:35; 1Ki 18:36, 39; Ps 100:3; Isa 37:16, 20; 43:11; 45:21; Eze 36:23
  36. Psalm 46:10 : Ps 18:46; Isa 2:11
  37. Psalm 46:11 : S Ps 20:1
  38. Psalm 46:11 : S ver 7
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Proverbs 22:15

15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 22:15 : S Pr 13:24; S 20:30
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09/01/2021 DAB Transcript

Job 40:1-42:17, 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, Psalms 45:1-17, Proverbs 22:14

Today is the 1st day of September welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy and a privilege to be here with you today just like it is every day, but it’s always nice on these brand-new beginnings. And here we are, throwing ourselves into a brand-new month. Today is the 244th day of the year which means it’s the 244th time that we’ve been able to get together like this and do what we do, take the next step forward together and that next step forward will lead us back into the book of Job. And as we begin this month, we will conclude the book of Job today. And just reminding us, Job’s been looking for God, trying to figure out where he could find an audience with God to plead his case. And God showed up yesterday and had unanswerable questions for Job. And God will continue to speak in today’s reading as we conclude the book of Job. We’re reading from the New International Version this week. Job 40, 41, and 42 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so we…we concluded the book of Job today and let’s remember that Job had an entire case prepared to present to God. He had a significant amount of questions to ask God. He had worked through some of those questions with his friends, but they had no answers and he…he didn’t want their human wisdom because he knew what they were going to say. He wanted God to answer him. And then God showed up and started asking really big God sized questions and Job then realized he didn’t actually have anything to say after all. And, so, when God is like, “okay, buddy. You got questions and you’re spewing them out? Then let’s play the game of questions.” And God asks questions that Job cannot answer while God reveals just how involved he is in all of the different aspects of the world. And in many ways this is what the text is leading us toward. There are always going to be questions. There are always bigger questions. There will always be things that we do not understand but when we come into the presence of God all of our pride and arrogance and all of the questions and all of the stuff that we’re going to say, it like…it’s just…it’s gone. There’s nothing to say which is what Job said. He said I had only heard about you before, but now I see you and I don’t have anything to say…like I put my hand over my mouth and shut up. So, it’s interesting because it leaves us with some questions. Like when we find ourselves in a time or season of suffering do we need God to fix it or do we need God? Do we need the answers that we may or may not understand or do we need God? What the book of Job…Job leads us to conclude is that there is way more going on than we ever understand. We get very very self…self-absorbed, especially if we’re in trial, we’re in pain of some sort, we’re suffering in some sort of way, it becomes our obsession. It might even become our dark idol. It’s the only thing we’re giving our energy to. It’s the only thing we’re giving our life to, this pain-and-suffering and the questions that ensue and swirl around it. And, so, when we invite God into that we certainly invite Him into it, but the idea is that He would fix it. What if He’s not gonna fix it? What if there’s more going on than we understand? What if all of our questions would only lead to bigger questions that we could never answer? What Job discovers is that he wanted God and he wanted a conversation but when he got into the presence of God he didn’t need that conversation anymore. And that’s hard. It’s really really hard to have that kind of perspective when suffering is upon us, but it’s not likely that we suffer the way Job suffered. And we watched the way that the story went. He…he met with tragedy. He met with morning and terrible suffering in his soul and body. He had questions. He talked to people, right? He got counseling. He was told all kinds of stuff he processed it all, but he still was in pursuit of God because, at least intuitively, he knew that the only person that could answer, the only person that could explain, the only person that held anything that he didn’t already know would be God. And, so, he sought God but then in God’s presence he realized he had only been operating on a working assumption. All of them had only been operating in a working assumption, like a theological framework about who God is and what God does. But in God’s presence, what Job and his friends thought they knew…well…all the conventional wisdom as it turned out, was incorrect. So, the thing for us to contemplate is Job’s response once he’s in God’s presence.

Prayer:

Holy Spirit we invite You into that. We’ve had all kinds of attitudes. You have seen and heard them all. You have listened to us flail around before You in Your presence all by ourselves. You’ve heard us talking about the things we’ve been suffering. We’ve acted like Job before. We’ve gotten all the counsel. We’ve listened all the answers. We’ve even dispensed the answers. We’ve been on both sides of the equation. And the book of Job, ancient as it is, is showing us that this rationale, this kind of way of doing things has been going on thousands and thousands and thousands of years and so we’re simply enmeshed in what we’ve always been doing is humanity, asking these questions. And we seek wisdom, and we seek answers but so often when we are faced with something that doesn’t have an adequate answer, at least to our liking, we start blaming, we start accusing. And it was the accuser. And the accuser in the story of Job is Satan. We have no desire whatsoever to be playing that role. Forgive us. There’s more going on than we know, and it is difficult for us to not have understanding and yet at that very point is where our faith begins. So, come Holy Spirit because we need Your comfort. We need Your guidance. We need Your direction. We need Your clarity. We need You. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello DAB family this is Anne from Arizona, and it is August the 27th. I am so encouraged to hear Gigi call in and talk about how she’s come to the realization that God brought her through these things, through Lyme disease, through all these things that she was going through and that He’s a good good father. Be encouraged. As Psalm 95 says oh come let us sing to the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come into His presence with Thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise for the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods. God is a good good father. God is great. God is worthy of our praise. He’s worthy of our trust. Be encouraged that God is good and that God sees you and hears you. I’m so encouraged, and it gives me so much hope just to hear those words of encouragement from Gigi. Be…

Hi Daily Audio Bible family I wanted to call in for two things today. One is to say thank you to Sparky. I’ve just listened to the Aug 27th podcast and just loved hearing Sparky’s encouragement of how God has changed his life, brought transformation, brought him to be doing a master’s degree when that was something that was just so seems so impossible in the past and how He’s brought new life and New Hope. Thank you for sharing that Sparky it really encouraged me, touched my heart and I just think you’ve got a really powerful story there of God’s goodness. So, bless you and I pray God’s blessing on your studies and God’s blessing on your marriage. And second thing I wanted to ask for is your prayers everyone as I am heading back to England. I’ve lived in the US for six years and really loved it. Over the past twelve months though I've…I’ve sensed God’s prompting to move back and so I am. So, next week I’m relocating back to England and as you can imagine there's…there’s always lots to do. There’s places to live and jobs to find church communities to become part of. So, we’d love your prayers for…for all of that process and for me to no God’s peace and God’s provision on the journey. And I’m excited that I’m going to continue to be part of the Daily Audio Bible family. So, I’ll be listening, I’ll be praying, and you’ll sometimes hear from me as well. But I’ll become Ben the Brit from Brighton instead of end the Brit…

Hi everyone, it’s Shana your sister from South Dakota. I just wanted to call and offer some encouragement to the dad from Duluth. You see, I was an IV drug addict, alcoholic, pothead, smoker relationship addict among other things, a liar, a cheat, a thief. I really ran my parents through the wringer for over a decade with my behaviors and being in and out of jail. And my mom even had all the jails within a certain distance of our hometown on speed dial. I’ve been in prison. I…with my last child didn’t tone down my partying and my using. Thank God he’s a healthy boy. He’s now almost 10 years old. But the Lord can heal. He can take away that compulsion to use and I know that without a doubt in my life today and I know it’s because of the prayers that came from those that loved me. I’m in school working on my bachelors in counseling. I have one year left. I have a pretty good GPA. I am married now. Crazy! I have relationships with all my children. And I was even given the gift of my parents before they passed away in this last year, some time with them seeing me living right. You and your daughter are in my prayers. It will be done. I believe that. Bye everybody.

Good hot day to you all. I was just listening to the August 27th version of the DAB, and I just wanted to give some shout outs. This is People on the Water from Indiana. First GG from gville my heart is jumping with joy. You said…you talked about the account found in the gospel where the paraplegic was brought by what was it three friends into Jesus so that he could be healed. It was the faith of the friends that brought the healing, that brought healing to the friend. And it was through Jesus that all of that happened. And honestly just your child, your baby, that’s your baby. I am so grateful that you see it that way. And the beautiful words that you’d spoken over us, it just sounded like poetry to me and that was just really encouraging. Dana from South Carolina, you’re a first-time caller and you’re praying for someone who is praying for someone. Like that’s just awesome and I’m just lifting up that prayer for that Lady who is in pain and for the lady who lost her son that God walks us through this. And then Mandy from Georgia just talking about how God uses our history, how God uses our history in order to deal with us in our future. I mean God uses our history. God uses our __ in our past to express love in unique and fun ways. And then Sarah from London finishes, “there is nothing too big for our God.” And I’m going to leave that with you. I love you all. And thank you for all that you are doing. In Jesus’ name I pray, and I ask. Amen.

Hey family this is Eyes of a Dove here. I just wanted to jump on and record a quick thank you message to all my friends on the DAB Facebook. The last 24 hours has been the most intense experience as a parent and coparent I think Billy and I have ever dealt with. Izzy went to youth group last night. She was in her mother’s custody and instead of attending youth group with my three children she grabbed another young girl who struggles with transgender stuff and the two of them hung out in Snoqualmie all over the town. But Izzy never came home to her mom. So, I queued in her mom that Izzy was missing, and we were unable to locate Izzy until this morning at 8:30 AM. We had the church leadership and pastor staff, we had the police officers and ourselves, all of us scouring the woods and all over the town. And in the morning, she contacted us with a real prideful condescending kind of irritation with us and when she finally made it home, she concocted quite a few lies that it was everyone else’s fault that no one was at the church to get her. It was her only option, and it wasn’t. So, any who…just asking you guys if you see this message, I’m sure it’s already happened but we’re heading over to the biological mom’s home. Just pray that I stay peaceful, and I button my mouth and allow those parents to do their parenting and help me to be a prayer intercessor for those two parents as they mitigate their rebellious daughter. And Father I ask that you would enter into Izzy’s heart father that she would come to know you and set aside the things of the world that trouble her and give her anxiety and cause her to be selfish Lord and help her to understand other people’s feelings and to make right and healthy choices. Thank you, friends for supporting us.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday September 1, 2021 (NIV)

Job 40-42

40 The Lord said to Job:(A)

2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty(B) correct him?(C)
Let him who accuses God answer him!”(D)

3 Then Job answered the Lord:

4 “I am unworthy(E)—how can I reply to you?
I put my hand over my mouth.(F)
5 I spoke once, but I have no answer(G)—
twice, but I will say no more.”(H)

6 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm:(I)

7 “Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.(J)

8 “Would you discredit my justice?(K)
Would you condemn me to justify yourself?(L)
9 Do you have an arm like God’s,(M)
and can your voice(N) thunder like his?(O)
10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.(P)
11 Unleash the fury of your wrath,(Q)
look at all who are proud and bring them low,(R)
12 look at all who are proud(S) and humble them,(T)
crush(U) the wicked where they stand.
13 Bury them all in the dust together;(V)
shroud their faces in the grave.(W)
14 Then I myself will admit to you
that your own right hand can save you.(X)

15 “Look at Behemoth,
which I made(Y) along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox.(Z)
16 What strength(AA) it has in its loins,
what power in the muscles of its belly!(AB)
17 Its tail sways like a cedar;
the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.(AC)
18 Its bones are tubes of bronze,
its limbs(AD) like rods of iron.(AE)
19 It ranks first among the works of God,(AF)
yet its Maker(AG) can approach it with his sword.(AH)
20 The hills bring it their produce,(AI)
and all the wild animals play(AJ) nearby.(AK)
21 Under the lotus plants it lies,
hidden among the reeds(AL) in the marsh.(AM)
22 The lotuses conceal it in their shadow;
the poplars by the stream(AN) surround it.
23 A raging river(AO) does not alarm it;
it is secure, though the Jordan(AP) should surge against its mouth.
24 Can anyone capture it by the eyes,
or trap it and pierce its nose?(AQ)

41 [a]“Can you pull in Leviathan(AR) with a fishhook(AS)
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through its nose(AT)
or pierce its jaw with a hook?(AU)
3 Will it keep begging you for mercy?(AV)
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?(AW)
5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6 Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?(AX)
8 If you lay a hand on it,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!(AY)
9 Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.(AZ)
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.(BA)
Who then is able to stand against me?(BB)
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?(BC)
Everything under heaven belongs to me.(BD)

12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,(BE)
its strength(BF) and its graceful form.
13 Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[b]?(BG)
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,(BH)
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15 Its back has[c] rows of shields
tightly sealed together;(BI)
16 each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.(BJ)
19 Flames(BK) stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from its nostrils(BL)
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 Its breath(BM) sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.(BN)
22 Strength(BO) resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24 Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.(BP)
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;(BQ)
they retreat before its thrashing.(BR)
26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.(BS)
27 Iron it treats like straw(BT)
and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make it flee;(BU)
slingstones are like chaff to it.
29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;(BV)
it laughs(BW) at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.(BX)
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron(BY)
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.(BZ)
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is its equal(CA)—
a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all that are haughty;(CB)
it is king over all that are proud.(CC)”

Job

42 Then Job replied to the Lord:

2 “I know that you can do all things;(CD)
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.(CE)
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’(CF)
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.(CG)

4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’(CH)
5 My ears had heard of you(CI)
but now my eyes have seen you.(CJ)
6 Therefore I despise myself(CK)
and repent(CL) in dust and ashes.”(CM)

Epilogue

7 After the Lord had said these things to Job(CN), he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends,(CO) because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.(CP) 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams(CQ) and go to my servant Job(CR) and sacrifice a burnt offering(CS) for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer(CT) and not deal with you according to your folly.(CU) You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”(CV) 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite(CW) did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.(CX)

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes(CY) and gave him twice as much as he had before.(CZ) 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before(DA) came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him,(DB) and each one gave him a piece of silver[d] and a gold ring.

12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.(DC)

Footnotes:

  1. Job 41:1 In Hebrew texts 41:1-8 is numbered 40:25-32, and 41:9-34 is numbered 41:1-26.
  2. Job 41:13 Septuagint; Hebrew double bridle
  3. Job 41:15 Or Its pride is its
  4. Job 42:11 Hebrew him a kesitah; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

Cross references:

  1. Job 40:1 : S Job 5:8; S 10:2
  2. Job 40:2 : S Job 13:3
  3. Job 40:2 : S Job 9:15; S 11:8; S 33:13; Ro 9:20
  4. Job 40:2 : S Job 9:3
  5. Job 40:4 : Job 42:6
  6. Job 40:4 : S Jdg 18:19; S Job 29:9
  7. Job 40:5 : S Job 9:3
  8. Job 40:5 : S Job 9:15
  9. Job 40:6 : S Ex 14:21; S Job 38:1
  10. Job 40:7 : S Job 38:3
  11. Job 40:8 : S Job 15:25; S 27:2; Ro 3:3
  12. Job 40:8 : S Job 2:3; S 34:17
  13. Job 40:9 : S 2Ch 32:8; S Ps 98:1
  14. Job 40:9 : Isa 6:8; Eze 10:5
  15. Job 40:9 : S Ex 20:19; S Job 36:33
  16. Job 40:10 : Ps 29:1-2; 45:3; 93:1; 96:6; 104:1; 145:5
  17. Job 40:11 : S Job 20:28; Ps 7:11; Isa 5:25; 9:12, 19; 10:5; 13:3, 5; 30:27; 42:25; 51:20; Jer 7:20; Na 1:6; Zep 1:18
  18. Job 40:11 : Ps 18:27; Isa 2:11, 12, 17; 23:9; 24:10; 25:12; 26:5; 32:19
  19. Job 40:12 : Ps 10:4; Isa 25:11; Jer 48:29; 49:16; Zep 2:10
  20. Job 40:12 : S 1Sa 2:7; S Ps 52:5; 1Pe 5:5
  21. Job 40:12 : Ps 60:12; Isa 22:5; 28:3; 63:2-3, 6; Da 5:20; Mic 5:8; 7:10; Zec 10:5; Mal 4:3
  22. Job 40:13 : Nu 16:31-34
  23. Job 40:13 : S Job 4:9
  24. Job 40:14 : Ex 15:6, 12; Ps 18:35; 20:6; 48:10; 60:5; 108:6; Isa 41:10; 63:5
  25. Job 40:15 : S Job 9:9
  26. Job 40:15 : Isa 11:7; 65:25
  27. Job 40:16 : S Job 39:11
  28. Job 40:16 : Job 41:9
  29. Job 40:17 : Job 41:15
  30. Job 40:18 : Job 41:12
  31. Job 40:18 : Isa 11:4; 49:2
  32. Job 40:19 : Job 41:33; Ps 40:5; 139:14; Isa 27:1
  33. Job 40:19 : S Job 4:17; S 9:9
  34. Job 40:19 : S Ge 3:24
  35. Job 40:20 : Ps 104:14
  36. Job 40:20 : Ps 104:26
  37. Job 40:20 : S Job 5:23
  38. Job 40:21 : S Ge 41:2; Ps 68:30; Isa 35:7
  39. Job 40:21 : Job 8:11
  40. Job 40:22 : Ps 1:3; Isa 44:4
  41. Job 40:23 : Isa 8:7; 11:15
  42. Job 40:23 : S Jos 3:1
  43. Job 40:24 : 2Ki 19:28; Job 41:2, 7, 26; Isa 37:29
  44. Job 41:1 : S Job 3:8
  45. Job 41:1 : Am 4:2
  46. Job 41:2 : S Job 40:24
  47. Job 41:2 : Eze 19:4
  48. Job 41:3 : 1Ki 20:31
  49. Job 41:4 : S Ex 21:6
  50. Job 41:7 : S Job 40:24
  51. Job 41:8 : S Job 3:8
  52. Job 41:9 : Job 40:16
  53. Job 41:10 : S Job 3:8
  54. Job 41:10 : S 2Ch 20:6; S Isa 46:5; Jer 50:44; Rev 6:17
  55. Job 41:11 : S Job 34:33; Ro 11:35
  56. Job 41:11 : Ps 24:1; 50:12; S Jos 3:11; S Job 10:4; Ac 4:24; 1Co 10:26
  57. Job 41:12 : Job 40:18
  58. Job 41:12 : S Job 39:11
  59. Job 41:13 : S Job 30:11; S 39:10
  60. Job 41:14 : Ps 22:13
  61. Job 41:15 : Job 40:17
  62. Job 41:18 : S Job 3:9
  63. Job 41:19 : Da 10:6
  64. Job 41:20 : Ps 18:8
  65. Job 41:21 : S Job 4:9; Isa 11:4; 40:7
  66. Job 41:21 : Ps 18:8; Isa 10:17; 30:27; 33:14; 66:14-16; Jer 4:4
  67. Job 41:22 : S Job 39:11
  68. Job 41:24 : Mt 18:6
  69. Job 41:25 : Job 39:20
  70. Job 41:25 : S Job 3:8
  71. Job 41:26 : S Jos 8:18; S Job 40:24
  72. Job 41:27 : ver 29
  73. Job 41:28 : Ps 91:5
  74. Job 41:29 : ver 27
  75. Job 41:29 : S Job 5:22
  76. Job 41:30 : Isa 28:27; 41:15; Am 1:3
  77. Job 41:31 : 1Sa 2:14
  78. Job 41:31 : Eze 32:2
  79. Job 41:33 : S Job 40:19
  80. Job 41:34 : Ps 18:27; 101:5; 131:1; Pr 6:17; 21:4; 30:13
  81. Job 41:34 : Job 28:8
  82. Job 42:2 : S Ge 18:14; S Mt 19:26
  83. Job 42:2 : S 2Ch 20:6; S Job 16:19; Ac 4:28; Eph 1:11
  84. Job 42:3 : S Job 34:35
  85. Job 42:3 : S Job 5:9
  86. Job 42:4 : S Job 38:3
  87. Job 42:5 : S Job 26:14; Ro 10:17
  88. Job 42:5 : Jdg 13:22; Isa 6:5; S Mt 5:8; Lk 2:30; Eph 1:17-18
  89. Job 42:6 : Job 40:4; Eze 6:9; Ro 12:3
  90. Job 42:6 : S Job 34:33
  91. Job 42:6 : S Ex 10:3; S Ezr 9:6; S Job 2:8; S 6:29
  92. Job 42:7 : S Jos 1:7
  93. Job 42:7 : Job 32:3
  94. Job 42:7 : ver 8; S Job 9:15
  95. Job 42:8 : Nu 23:1, 29; Eze 45:23
  96. Job 42:8 : Job 1:8
  97. Job 42:8 : S Ge 8:20
  98. Job 42:8 : Jas 5:15-16; 1Jn 5:16
  99. Job 42:8 : Ge 20:7; Job 22:30
  100. Job 42:8 : S ver 7
  101. Job 42:9 : Job 2:11
  102. Job 42:9 : S Ge 19:21; S 20:17; Eze 14:14
  103. Job 42:10 : Dt 30:3; Ps 14:7
  104. Job 42:10 : S Job 1:3; Ps 85:1-3; 126:5-6; Php 2:8-9; Jas 5:11
  105. Job 42:11 : S Job 19:13
  106. Job 42:11 : S Ge 37:35
  107. Job 42:17 : S Ge 15:15
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2 Corinthians 5:11-21

The Ministry of Reconciliation

11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord,(A) we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.(B) 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again,(C) but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us,(D) so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13 If we are “out of our mind,”(E) as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.(F) 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves(G) but for him who died for them(H) and was raised again.

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly(I) point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,(J) the new creation(K) has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!(L) 18 All this is from God,(M) who reconciled us to himself through Christ(N) and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.(O) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors,(P) as though God were making his appeal through us.(Q) We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.(R) 21 God made him who had no sin(S) to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.(T)

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Or Christ, that person is a new creation.
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:21 Or be a sin offering

Cross references:

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:11 : Job 23:15; Heb 10:31; 12:29; Jude 23
  2. 2 Corinthians 5:11 : 2Co 4:2
  3. 2 Corinthians 5:12 : S 2Co 3:1
  4. 2 Corinthians 5:12 : 2Co 1:14
  5. 2 Corinthians 5:13 : 2Co 11:1, 16, 17; 12:11
  6. 2 Corinthians 5:14 : Ro 6:6, 7; Gal 2:20; Col 3:3
  7. 2 Corinthians 5:15 : Ro 14:7-9
  8. 2 Corinthians 5:15 : Ro 4:25
  9. 2 Corinthians 5:16 : 2Co 10:4; 11:18
  10. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : S Ro 16:3
  11. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : S Jn 1:13; S Ro 6:4; Gal 6:15
  12. 2 Corinthians 5:17 : Isa 65:17; Rev 21:4, 5
  13. 2 Corinthians 5:18 : S Ro 11:36
  14. 2 Corinthians 5:18 : S Ro 5:10
  15. 2 Corinthians 5:19 : S Ro 4:8
  16. 2 Corinthians 5:20 : 2Co 6:1; Eph 6:20
  17. 2 Corinthians 5:20 : ver 18
  18. 2 Corinthians 5:20 : Isa 27:5
  19. 2 Corinthians 5:21 : Heb 4:15; 7:26; 1Pe 2:22, 24; 1Jn 3:5
  20. 2 Corinthians 5:21 : S Ro 1:17; S 1Co 1:30
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Psalm 45

Psalm 45[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.[b] A wedding song.(A)

1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme
as I recite my verses for the king;
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

2 You are the most excellent of men
and your lips have been anointed with grace,(B)
since God has blessed you forever.(C)

3 Gird your sword(D) on your side, you mighty one;(E)
clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.(F)
4 In your majesty ride forth victoriously(G)
in the cause of truth, humility and justice;(H)
let your right hand(I) achieve awesome deeds.(J)
5 Let your sharp arrows(K) pierce the hearts(L) of the king’s enemies;(M)
let the nations fall beneath your feet.
6 Your throne, O God,[c] will last for ever and ever;(N)
a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
7 You love righteousness(O) and hate wickedness;(P)
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing(Q) you with the oil of joy.(R)
8 All your robes are fragrant(S) with myrrh(T) and aloes(U) and cassia;(V)
from palaces adorned with ivory(W)
the music of the strings(X) makes you glad.
9 Daughters of kings(Y) are among your honored women;
at your right hand(Z) is the royal bride(AA) in gold of Ophir.(AB)

10 Listen, daughter,(AC) and pay careful attention:(AD)
Forget your people(AE) and your father’s house.
11 Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;(AF)
honor(AG) him, for he is your lord.(AH)
12 The city of Tyre(AI) will come with a gift,[d](AJ)
people of wealth will seek your favor.
13 All glorious(AK) is the princess within her chamber;
her gown is interwoven with gold.(AL)
14 In embroidered garments(AM) she is led to the king;(AN)
her virgin companions(AO) follow her—
those brought to be with her.
15 Led in with joy and gladness,(AP)
they enter the palace of the king.

16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers;
you will make them princes(AQ) throughout the land.

17 I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;(AR)
therefore the nations will praise you(AS) for ever and ever.(AT)

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 45:1 In Hebrew texts 45:1-17 is numbered 45:2-18.
  2. Psalm 45:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
  3. Psalm 45:6 Here the king is addressed as God’s representative.
  4. Psalm 45:12 Or A Tyrian robe is among the gifts

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 45:1 : SS 1:1
  2. Psalm 45:2 : Lk 4:22
  3. Psalm 45:2 : Ps 21:6
  4. Psalm 45:3 : S Dt 32:41; Ps 149:6; Rev 1:16
  5. Psalm 45:3 : S 2Sa 1:19
  6. Psalm 45:3 : S Job 40:10; S Ps 21:5
  7. Psalm 45:4 : Rev 6:2
  8. Psalm 45:4 : Zep 2:3
  9. Psalm 45:4 : Ps 21:8
  10. Psalm 45:4 : S Dt 4:34; Ps 65:5; 66:3
  11. Psalm 45:5 : S Dt 32:23
  12. Psalm 45:5 : S Nu 24:8
  13. Psalm 45:5 : Ps 9:13; 92:9
  14. Psalm 45:6 : S Ge 21:33; La 5:19
  15. Psalm 45:7 : Ps 33:5
  16. Psalm 45:7 : S Ps 11:5
  17. Psalm 45:7 : Ps 2:2; Isa 45:1; 61:1; Zec 4:14
  18. Psalm 45:7 : S Ps 23:5; Heb 1:8-9*
  19. Psalm 45:8 : Pr 27:9; SS 1:3; 4:10
  20. Psalm 45:8 : S Ge 37:25
  21. Psalm 45:8 : S Nu 24:6; Jn 19:39
  22. Psalm 45:8 : S Ex 30:24
  23. Psalm 45:8 : S 1Ki 22:39
  24. Psalm 45:8 : Ps 144:9; 150:4; Isa 38:20
  25. Psalm 45:9 : SS 6:8
  26. Psalm 45:9 : 1Ki 2:19
  27. Psalm 45:9 : Isa 62:5
  28. Psalm 45:9 : S Ge 10:29
  29. Psalm 45:10 : Ru 1:11
  30. Psalm 45:10 : Jer 5:1
  31. Psalm 45:10 : Ru 1:16
  32. Psalm 45:11 : S Est 1:11; S La 2:15
  33. Psalm 45:11 : Eph 5:33
  34. Psalm 45:11 : 1Pe 3:6
  35. Psalm 45:12 : S Jos 19:29
  36. Psalm 45:12 : S 1Ki 9:16; S 2Ch 9:24
  37. Psalm 45:13 : Isa 61:10
  38. Psalm 45:13 : Ex 39:3
  39. Psalm 45:14 : S Jdg 5:30
  40. Psalm 45:14 : Est 2:15
  41. Psalm 45:14 : SS 1:3
  42. Psalm 45:15 : S Est 8:17
  43. Psalm 45:16 : 1Sa 2:8; Ps 68:27; 113:8
  44. Psalm 45:17 : S Ex 3:15; Ps 33:11; 119:90; 135:13
  45. Psalm 45:17 : Ps 138:4
  46. Psalm 45:17 : S Ps 21:4; Rev 22:5
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Proverbs 22:14

14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(A)
a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(B)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 22:14 : S Pr 5:3-5; 23:27
  2. Proverbs 22:14 : Ecc 7:26
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08/31/2021 DAB Transcript

Job 37:1-39:30, 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10, Psalm 44:9-26, Proverbs 22:13

Today is the 31st day of August, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I’m Brian, it is great to be here with you today, today and every day. But today cause that’s the day we’re in for starters, we can’t be in another day, currently. I suppose we could be listening to a different day but it wouldn’t be today and today is today and today is the 31st of August. And I hope I’m ready for all of this, this month ending and getting ready for a new month. I was shocked at how quickly August flew by but here we are, last day of August and we will be continuing our journey through the book of Job, we will be concluding the book of Job tomorrow as we begin a new month and so were getting down to it now. So, we are, just by way of reminder, in the middle of Elihu’s discourse. So, we’ve listened to Job converse with three of his friends, friends throughout this book. And then Elihu, he steps forward and starts talking and essentially says I’m younger and so I was letting the wisdom speak first but there’s not a lot of wisdom here and I have plenty to say and so it’s my turn and that’s what we’re listening to his Elihu offering just Job straight in his reasoning. And so, let’s get to it, we’re reading from the New International Version, Job 37, 38 and 39 today.

Commentary:

Okay, so we, we have to talk about Job today because Job got what he wanted. He wanted, he wanted to find God and he did and God has shown up. So, let’s just look back because tomorrow we will be finishing the book of Job, God will continue his discussion tomorrow as we reach our conclusion of this book, but, we remember when we began Job right at the very beginning, Job had a day like no other in which he lost everything, he lost his children to death, his livestock, his shepherds were attacked and killed in pillaged, the livestock was taken, generally everything that Job cared about was taken from him in a day and we watched Job as he’s getting the news and when the news is fully delivered, he stands up and tears his robe as an active, deep sorrow and pain-and-suffering, and he falls down and worships God. It’s a riveting scene. He has this posture of the Lord gave me everything I have. The Lord has taken it away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. It’s riveting. Job reaches a place where even his own life is like curse God and die. So, that’s how bad things have gotten for Job and yet Job doesn’t understand why. He doesn’t believe he’s done anything wrong and he does believe that the tragedy the things that have come upon him are at the hand of the Lord. Just thinking, I mean the bitterness that’s available in that when everything is destroyed and you don’t know why but instead of cursing God and dying right, instead of going into that bitterness Job uses his energy to hold onto his innocence, to hold onto his integrity, and so he will not speak ill of God in any way, will not sin in any way. He believes he is righteous and innocent before God and all of this and what is happening to him is not just or at least in any kind of way that he can understand it to be just. So, it’s not too long before some of his friends show up, three of them. They see him from afar and they see just how wasted away he is and they arrive and they sit down with him and they sit with him in silence for a week. This is called Shiva, sitting Shiva, this is sitting with someone in their grief, not there to fix it, not there to give them promised scriptures over and over, just to offer presence, to acknowledge the pain, to be there and it, to simply offer our presence, not our words, and that’s what they’re doing. They sit with them for a week until he starts talking, that’s what they’re waiting for. And, he starts talking and he discusses how he wishes he had never been born, how on the night he was conceived that that would’ve been just blacked out. How he would’ve just died when he was born, how he would not how to face this. And, then he begins to talk about his innocence and he begins to talk about finding God. And, his friends all respond. And, we read through all of that, they all respond. It’s all rational, it all makes sense. It’s all in defense of God because Job is essentially saying what God is doing to me isn’t just, I don’t understand it. I haven’t done anything wrong. They spend the bulk of the book trying to convince him that that’s not possible, that he has indeed somewhere somehow done something wrong and they eventually begin to go after him because of the things that he is saying, as if his pride is the issue. Actually, Job’s friends sound a whole lot like the kind of things that we say to people when we find them in suffering and it ends up to be a full-blown argument because Job gets mad that they keep trying to insinuate that somehow, he isn’t innocent and then they get mad because he’s insinuating that he is sinless and righteous and what is happening to him, this judgment that’s happening to him, is unjust. That’s not a grid that they can fit the equation into which is the point. When bad things happen to good people, it’s hard to find the answers. And, this book wrestles with that fact and in part it does a good job of showing us that we, with all of the wisdom that we have in all of our understanding of God, that we might think that we have and all of the things that we say to people, we really don’t fully understand what we’re talking about when we’re talking about the most high God. In fact, it’s not that we don’t kind of don’t fully understand, it’s that we barely have scratched the surface. We are talking about the most high God, Creator of all things far and away beyond our capacity in every respect. So, in the end, what Job wants is God. What he wants is an audience with God. He’s prepared his case. He believes that if God gave him answers, he would then have the answers that he’s looking for. He doesn’t want answers from his friends. He doesn’t want human answers. He feels like everything that his friends are telling him he already knows, he’s already analyzed all that, they’re not wiser than he is. They can only offer human wisdom, and he needs God. And then the last person Elihu, the younger one steps forward with his opinions which he offers and we’ve listened to those opinions over the last couple of days and then God shows up today, “Brace yourself like a man. I have some questions of my own. You’ve been asking a lot of questions. I have some questions and you’re going to answer them.” I mean come on, that would scare me to death. Even reading it, it’s like can you, I mean on the one hand, God, like how do you get your mind around that God has shown up in some sort of tangible, understandable way and is speaking overwhelming, but what He is speaking is very directly aimed at the fact that for all Job’s questions, God is about to reveal that Job nor his friends know pretty much anything about anything. And then God begins to ask these giant, God sized questions, which is what will what we been reading today. And will continue until tomorrow. Let’s remember that Job had a case prepared, he knew what he was going to say to God, he just didn’t know where to find God but he knew what he would say. And then God comes to Job. So, finally Job’s gonna get to say what he needed to say and we’ll listen to what that is, as we conclude the book of Job tomorrow.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word every bit of it, all of the stories, all of the people, all of the time the passes, all of the different changes in the world that we can see, as customs and clothing change but people don’t. So, as we move toward the conclusion of Job, we invite Your Holy Spirit fully and all of our questions and may we watch Job tomorrow and learn quite a bit. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello dear saints, my name is Mercy. I’ve been listening to DAB for many years. I’m calling for prayer. I have nine children, they’re all grown, 22 grandchildren so far. What I’m calling for prayer for is that we had a crushing blow that rocked our family. I would mostly probably actually describe it as more like a train wreck. My husband of 43 years, who everyone thought was a model Christian became evident that he was a pedophile. He took advantage of some of our little ones which cause severe damage and shattered the face of some. Please pray, he’s in prison now. But please pray for the healing of hearts and souls in my children and my grandchildren. I’m doing well, I’m surrounded by a network of Godly friends and family who carry me but please pray for my children. When you pray, pray for Mercy’s Children. Thanks, DABers, love you.

Hey guys it’s Sparky from Texas. I’m gonna try and get through this these are happy tears. I was listening to Dr. John and Jen’s call here on the 26th and it just broke me down in tears hearing the praise reports. I know, I know not everything gets fixed and God doesn’t fix everything but it just, it’s mind blowing to me how God is still healing and still moving lives and I just, I’d like to pray a minute. Father we thank You for your grace and we thank You that You that you’re not gone, Your not dead Father. You’re reaching into these people’s lives, You’re reaching in my family’s life. And, Father, You’re so real and when I hear these praise reports Father, it’s just, it’s so much to take on just the joy and the grace and Your love. Father, be with those that you don’t decide to heal and let them know that that’s Your plan Father. Lord, I just thank you so much for Your grace. I thank you for everybody on this. Father, we just appreciate You, we love You and just stay with us, help those who need, help us to show those who need your faith. Father, we thank You so much for Your son, Christ, it’s in that son’s name we pray. Amen. Love you guys, I pray for everyone of you. Praise God for praise reports. Have a great day.

Hello, my Daily Audio Bible brothers and sisters, my DAB family. This is Yolanda. After listening virtually every day, sometimes twice a day and lifting up my DABers prayers since 2012 I am moved to call in for the first time. Today I come to you on behalf of my dear, dear friend Birdie. Birdie is a mother of a sweet toddler. She is 37 weeks pregnant and is quite suddenly suffering from COVID pneumonia with fluid around her heart. Her mother and husband are frantic with worry, and caring for their toddler, well, unable to be with her in hospital while she faces labor and delivery, possibly a C-section without them. DABers, please join me as I fervently left Birdie and her sweet baby up in my prayers asking for complete healing for her and a healthy vaginal delivery for her sweet baby. Lord, please give Birdie peace during this time of intense trial, intense pain and sickness. Lord, please give the doctors and nurses, the knowledge and medicine to bring her to full recovery. In Jesus holy and precious name, I pray. Amen.

Hi DAB family this is God’s Life Speaker. While I was praying with my husband this morning as were struggling with our 21-year-old and he, he is depressed. However, he is seeking help for praise God for that. It dawned on us that there’s been some judgment that we’ve put on, on him, that is not fair. That’s the judgment that we use against him, that will be used on us so, this morning we repented. As parents and children of God, and you know, it’s the self-evaluation; we want things and people in our lives to look better, look right, fix themselves, yet, are we examining ourselves? Are we walking in a manner worthy of our calling? Are we imitators of Christ? Are we the peacemakers? Because God sees and God hears, He knows our thoughts, He knows what’s going on. He knows our heart aches too and I feel, as someone who likes to speak God’s word out into the atmosphere and change it and bring glory to God, I can get pretty low about what I’m seeing in my kids. And it hurts because we want them to be glorifying God and working towards that perfection that He calls us to. Yet, they are in training, even if they’re 21, they’re still in training and we are the ones that need to set that example so we needed to do some repenting this morning, some encouraging each other and spiritual gifts right. So, I asked that we would do that all. I’m praying for each one of your children and grandchildren and us ourselves in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Hey, everyone I just thought I would ring in and update you on how I’m going. It’s Margo here, missionary in Liberia. I have made it back to Australia for, we’re back here for a few weeks for my son’s wedding which is amazing because Australia has some very strict rules around travel. And so, getting back into the country actually was quite a miracle and in fact, even leaving the country again is a miracle and we already have our permit to leave in a few weeks’ time to go back. So, I thank the Lord for His help and His hand has been upon us. And I want to thank everyone for their prayers. I rung in a few weeks or maybe a couple of months ago and I was in a really bad way. And, I have noticed that I’ve really picked up. And I have really felt His comfort and His peace much more in my life. All the things that are out of my control, I’ve been much more able to leave them in His hands. And I’m so, so grateful for His comfort. I’m so grateful for your prayers. It’s…I should have rung in sooner. So, we’re in Australia for a few weeks and then heading back and you know, continue to pray for us. It’s not an easy calling we have, mind you, no one has an easy calling. So, I’m just grateful for this community, grateful for the prayers that we pray all for each other. And, God bless you all. Love you. Bye.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday August 31, 2021 (NIV)

Job 37-39

37 “At this my heart pounds(A)
and leaps from its place.
2 Listen!(B) Listen to the roar of his voice,(C)
to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.(D)
3 He unleashes his lightning(E) beneath the whole heaven
and sends it to the ends of the earth.(F)
4 After that comes the sound of his roar;
he thunders(G) with his majestic voice.(H)
When his voice resounds,
he holds nothing back.
5 God’s voice thunders(I) in marvelous ways;(J)
he does great things beyond our understanding.(K)
6 He says to the snow,(L) ‘Fall on the earth,’
and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’(M)
7 So that everyone he has made may know his work,(N)
he stops all people from their labor.[a](O)
8 The animals take cover;(P)
they remain in their dens.(Q)
9 The tempest comes out from its chamber,(R)
the cold from the driving winds.(S)
10 The breath of God produces ice,
and the broad waters become frozen.(T)
11 He loads the clouds with moisture;(U)
he scatters his lightning(V) through them.(W)
12 At his direction they swirl around
over the face of the whole earth
to do whatever he commands them.(X)
13 He brings the clouds to punish people,(Y)
or to water his earth and show his love.(Z)

14 “Listen(AA) to this, Job;
stop and consider God’s wonders.(AB)
15 Do you know how God controls the clouds
and makes his lightning(AC) flash?(AD)
16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised,(AE)
those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?(AF)
17 You who swelter in your clothes
when the land lies hushed under the south wind,(AG)
18 can you join him in spreading out the skies,(AH)
hard as a mirror of cast bronze?(AI)

19 “Tell us what we should say to him;(AJ)
we cannot draw up our case(AK) because of our darkness.(AL)
20 Should he be told that I want to speak?
Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?
21 Now no one can look at the sun,(AM)
bright as it is in the skies
after the wind has swept them clean.
22 Out of the north he comes in golden splendor;(AN)
God comes in awesome majesty.(AO)
23 The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;(AP)
in his justice(AQ) and great righteousness, he does not oppress.(AR)
24 Therefore, people revere him,(AS)
for does he not have regard for all the wise(AT) in heart?[b]”

The Lord Speaks

38 Then the Lord spoke to Job(AU) out of the storm.(AV) He said:

2 “Who is this that obscures my plans(AW)
with words without knowledge?(AX)
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.(AY)

4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?(AZ)
Tell me, if you understand.(BA)
5 Who marked off its dimensions?(BB) Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line(BC) across it?
6 On what were its footings set,(BD)
or who laid its cornerstone(BE)—
7 while the morning stars(BF) sang together(BG)
and all the angels[c](BH) shouted for joy?(BI)

8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors(BJ)
when it burst forth from the womb,(BK)
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,(BL)
10 when I fixed limits for it(BM)
and set its doors and bars in place,(BN)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(BO)
here is where your proud waves halt’?(BP)

12 “Have you ever given orders to the morning,(BQ)
or shown the dawn its place,(BR)
13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked(BS) out of it?(BT)
14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;(BU)
its features stand out like those of a garment.
15 The wicked are denied their light,(BV)
and their upraised arm is broken.(BW)

16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?(BX)
17 Have the gates of death(BY) been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?(BZ)
18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?(CA)
Tell me, if you know all this.(CB)

19 “What is the way to the abode of light?
And where does darkness reside?(CC)
20 Can you take them to their places?
Do you know the paths(CD) to their dwellings?
21 Surely you know, for you were already born!(CE)
You have lived so many years!

22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow(CF)
or seen the storehouses(CG) of the hail,(CH)
23 which I reserve for times of trouble,(CI)
for days of war and battle?(CJ)
24 What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,(CK)
or the place where the east winds(CL) are scattered over the earth?(CM)
25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,(CN)
26 to water(CO) a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,(CP)
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?(CQ)
28 Does the rain have a father?(CR)
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens(CS)
30 when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?(CT)

31 “Can you bind the chains[d] of the Pleiades?
Can you loosen Orion’s belt?(CU)
32 Can you bring forth the constellations(CV) in their seasons[e]
or lead out the Bear[f] with its cubs?(CW)
33 Do you know the laws(CX) of the heavens?(CY)
Can you set up God’s[g] dominion over the earth?

34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?(CZ)
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?(DA)
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[h](DB)
or gives the rooster understanding?[i](DC)
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars(DD) of the heavens(DE)
38 when the dust becomes hard(DF)
and the clods of earth stick together?(DG)

39 “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness
and satisfy the hunger of the lions(DH)
40 when they crouch in their dens(DI)
or lie in wait in a thicket?(DJ)
41 Who provides food(DK) for the raven(DL)
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?(DM)

39 “Do you know when the mountain goats(DN) give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?(DO)
2 Do you count the months till they bear?
Do you know the time they give birth?(DP)
3 They crouch down and bring forth their young;
their labor pains are ended.
4 Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
they leave and do not return.

5 “Who let the wild donkey(DQ) go free?
Who untied its ropes?
6 I gave it the wasteland(DR) as its home,
the salt flats(DS) as its habitat.(DT)
7 It laughs(DU) at the commotion in the town;
it does not hear a driver’s shout.(DV)
8 It ranges the hills(DW) for its pasture
and searches for any green thing.

9 “Will the wild ox(DX) consent to serve you?(DY)
Will it stay by your manger(DZ) at night?
10 Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?(EA)
Will it till the valleys behind you?
11 Will you rely on it for its great strength?(EB)
Will you leave your heavy work to it?
12 Can you trust it to haul in your grain
and bring it to your threshing floor?

13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
though they cannot compare
with the wings and feathers of the stork.(EC)
14 She lays her eggs on the ground
and lets them warm in the sand,
15 unmindful that a foot may crush them,
that some wild animal may trample them.(ED)
16 She treats her young harshly,(EE) as if they were not hers;
she cares not that her labor was in vain,
17 for God did not endow her with wisdom
or give her a share of good sense.(EF)
18 Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
she laughs(EG) at horse and rider.

19 “Do you give the horse its strength(EH)
or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
20 Do you make it leap like a locust,(EI)
striking terror(EJ) with its proud snorting?(EK)
21 It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength,(EL)
and charges into the fray.(EM)
22 It laughs(EN) at fear, afraid of nothing;
it does not shy away from the sword.
23 The quiver(EO) rattles against its side,
along with the flashing spear(EP) and lance.
24 In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground;
it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.(EQ)
25 At the blast of the trumpet(ER) it snorts, ‘Aha!’
It catches the scent of battle from afar,
the shout of commanders and the battle cry.(ES)

26 “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
and spread its wings toward the south?(ET)
27 Does the eagle soar at your command
and build its nest on high?(EU)
28 It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;
a rocky crag(EV) is its stronghold.
29 From there it looks for food;(EW)
its eyes detect it from afar.
30 Its young ones feast on blood,
and where the slain are, there it is.”(EX)

Footnotes:

  1. Job 37:7 Or work, / he fills all people with fear by his power
  2. Job 37:24 Or for he does not have regard for any who think they are wise.
  3. Job 38:7 Hebrew the sons of God
  4. Job 38:31 Septuagint; Hebrew beauty
  5. Job 38:32 Or the morning star in its season
  6. Job 38:32 Or out Leo
  7. Job 38:33 Or their
  8. Job 38:36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
  9. Job 38:36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

Cross references:

  1. Job 37:1 : Ps 38:10; Isa 15:5; Jer 4:19; Hab 3:16
  2. Job 37:2 : S Job 32:10
  3. Job 37:2 : ver 5
  4. Job 37:2 : Ps 18:13; 29:3-9
  5. Job 37:3 : S 2Sa 22:13; Ps 18:14
  6. Job 37:3 : S Job 36:32; Mt 24:27; Lk 17:24
  7. Job 37:4 : S 1Sa 2:10
  8. Job 37:4 : S Ex 20:19
  9. Job 37:5 : S 1Sa 2:10; Jn 12:29
  10. Job 37:5 : S Job 36:33
  11. Job 37:5 : S Job 5:9; S 11:7-9; S 36:4
  12. Job 37:6 : Dt 28:12; Job 38:22
  13. Job 37:6 : S Ge 7:4; S Job 5:10; S 28:26
  14. Job 37:7 : Ps 109:27
  15. Job 37:7 : Ps 104:19-23; 111:2
  16. Job 37:8 : S Job 28:26
  17. Job 37:8 : Job 38:40; Ps 104:22
  18. Job 37:9 : Ps 50:3
  19. Job 37:9 : Ps 147:17
  20. Job 37:10 : Job 38:29-30; Ps 147:17
  21. Job 37:11 : S Job 26:8
  22. Job 37:11 : S Job 36:30
  23. Job 37:11 : S Job 28:26
  24. Job 37:12 : S ver 3; Ps 147:16; 148:8
  25. Job 37:13 : S Ge 7:4; Ex 9:22-23; S 1Sa 12:17
  26. Job 37:13 : S 1Ki 18:45; S Job 5:10; S 36:31; 38:27
  27. Job 37:14 : S Job 32:10
  28. Job 37:14 : S Job 5:9
  29. Job 37:15 : S Job 36:30
  30. Job 37:15 : S Job 36:32
  31. Job 37:16 : S Job 36:29
  32. Job 37:16 : S Job 5:9; S 36:4
  33. Job 37:17 : Ac 27:13
  34. Job 37:18 : S Ge 1:1, 8; S Job 22:14
  35. Job 37:18 : Dt 28:23
  36. Job 37:19 : Ro 8:26
  37. Job 37:19 : S Job 13:18
  38. Job 37:19 : S Job 9:3
  39. Job 37:21 : S Jdg 5:31; Ac 22:11; 26:13
  40. Job 37:22 : Ps 19:5
  41. Job 37:22 : Ex 24:17
  42. Job 37:23 : S Job 5:9; S 36:4; Ro 11:33; 1Ti 6:16
  43. Job 37:23 : S Job 8:3
  44. Job 37:23 : S Job 4:17; Ps 44:1; Isa 63:9; Jer 25:5; La 3:33; Eze 18:23, 32
  45. Job 37:24 : S Ge 22:12; Job 28:28; Ecc 12:13; Mic 6:8; Mt 10:28
  46. Job 37:24 : S Job 5:13; Eph 5:15
  47. Job 38:1 : S Job 11:5
  48. Job 38:1 : S Ex 14:21; S 1Sa 2:10; Job 40:6; Isa 21:1; Eze 1:4
  49. Job 38:2 : S 1Ki 22:5; Isa 40:13
  50. Job 38:2 : S Job 34:35; Mk 10:38; 1Ti 1:7
  51. Job 38:3 : Job 40:7; 42:4; Mk 11:29
  52. Job 38:4 : S ver 5; S Ge 1:1; S 1Sa 2:8
  53. Job 38:4 : ver 18; S Job 34:13; Pr 30:4
  54. Job 38:5 : ver 4; Ps 102:25; Pr 8:29; Isa 40:12; 48:13; Jer 31:37
  55. Job 38:5 : Jer 31:39; Zec 1:16; 4:9-10
  56. Job 38:6 : Pr 8:25
  57. Job 38:6 : S Job 26:7
  58. Job 38:7 : S Ge 1:16
  59. Job 38:7 : Ps 19:1-4; 148:2-3
  60. Job 38:7 : S 1Ki 22:19
  61. Job 38:7 : S Dt 16:15
  62. Job 38:8 : ver 11; Ps 33:7; Pr 8:29; Jer 5:22
  63. Job 38:8 : S Ge 1:9-10
  64. Job 38:9 : S Ge 1:2
  65. Job 38:10 : S Job 28:25; Ps 33:7; 104:9; Isa 40:12
  66. Job 38:10 : Ne 3:3; Job 7:12; 26:10
  67. Job 38:11 : S ver 8
  68. Job 38:11 : Ps 65:7; 89:9; 104:6-9
  69. Job 38:12 : Ps 57:8
  70. Job 38:12 : Ps 74:16; Am 5:8
  71. Job 38:13 : Ps 104:35
  72. Job 38:13 : S Job 8:22
  73. Job 38:14 : Ex 28:11
  74. Job 38:15 : S Dt 28:29; S Job 15:22; S 18:5
  75. Job 38:15 : S Ge 17:14; S Job 4:10; S 31:22
  76. Job 38:16 : S Ge 1:7; S Job 9:8
  77. Job 38:17 : S Job 33:22; Mt 16:18; Rev 1:18
  78. Job 38:17 : S Job 7:9
  79. Job 38:18 : S Job 28:24; Isa 40:12
  80. Job 38:18 : S ver 4
  81. Job 38:19 : S Ge 1:4; S Job 28:3; Ps 139:11-12
  82. Job 38:20 : S Job 24:13
  83. Job 38:21 : Job 15:7
  84. Job 38:22 : S Job 37:6
  85. Job 38:22 : S Dt 28:12
  86. Job 38:22 : Ps 105:32; 147:17
  87. Job 38:23 : Ps 27:5; Isa 28:17; 30:30; Eze 13:11
  88. Job 38:23 : Ex 9:26; Jos 10:11; Eze 13:13; Rev 16:21
  89. Job 38:24 : S Job 28:24
  90. Job 38:24 : S Job 27:21
  91. Job 38:24 : Jer 10:13; 51:16
  92. Job 38:25 : Job 28:26
  93. Job 38:26 : Job 36:27
  94. Job 38:26 : Ps 84:6; 107:35; Isa 41:18
  95. Job 38:27 : S Job 28:26; S 37:13; S Ps 104:14
  96. Job 38:28 : S 2Sa 1:21; S Job 5:10
  97. Job 38:29 : Ps 147:16-17
  98. Job 38:30 : Job 37:10
  99. Job 38:31 : Job 9:9; Am 5:8
  100. Job 38:32 : 2Ki 23:5; Isa 13:10; 40:26; 45:12; Jer 19:13
  101. Job 38:32 : S Ge 1:16
  102. Job 38:33 : Ps 148:6; Jer 31:36
  103. Job 38:33 : S Ge 1:16
  104. Job 38:34 : S Job 5:10; S 22:11
  105. Job 38:35 : S Job 36:32
  106. Job 38:36 : S Job 9:4; S 34:32; Jas 1:5
  107. Job 38:36 : S Job 12:13
  108. Job 38:37 : S Jos 3:16
  109. Job 38:37 : S Job 22:11
  110. Job 38:38 : S Lev 26:19
  111. Job 38:38 : 1Ki 18:45
  112. Job 38:39 : S Ge 49:9
  113. Job 38:40 : S Job 37:8
  114. Job 38:40 : S Ge 49:9
  115. Job 38:41 : S Ge 1:30
  116. Job 38:41 : S Ge 8:7; Lk 12:24
  117. Job 38:41 : Ps 147:9; S Mt 6:26
  118. Job 39:1 : S Dt 14:5
  119. Job 39:1 : Ge 49:21
  120. Job 39:2 : S Ge 31:7-9
  121. Job 39:5 : S Ge 16:12
  122. Job 39:6 : Job 24:5; Ps 107:34; Jer 2:24
  123. Job 39:6 : Job 30:4
  124. Job 39:6 : Job 30:7; Jer 14:6; 17:6
  125. Job 39:7 : S Job 5:22
  126. Job 39:7 : Job 3:18
  127. Job 39:8 : Isa 32:20
  128. Job 39:9 : S Nu 23:22
  129. Job 39:9 : S Ex 21:6
  130. Job 39:9 : S Ge 42:27
  131. Job 39:10 : Job 41:13; Ps 32:9
  132. Job 39:11 : ver 19; Job 40:16; 41:12, 22; Ps 147:10
  133. Job 39:13 : Zec 5:9
  134. Job 39:15 : 2Ki 14:9
  135. Job 39:16 : ver 17; La 4:3
  136. Job 39:17 : S ver 16; S Job 21:22
  137. Job 39:18 : S Job 5:22
  138. Job 39:19 : S ver 11
  139. Job 39:20 : Joel 2:4-5; Rev 9:7
  140. Job 39:20 : Job 41:25
  141. Job 39:20 : Jer 8:16
  142. Job 39:21 : ver 11
  143. Job 39:21 : Jer 8:6
  144. Job 39:22 : S Job 5:22
  145. Job 39:23 : Isa 5:28; Jer 5:16
  146. Job 39:23 : Na 3:3
  147. Job 39:24 : Nu 10:9; Jer 4:5, 19; Eze 7:14; Am 3:6
  148. Job 39:25 : Jos 6:5
  149. Job 39:25 : Jer 8:6; Am 1:14; 2:2
  150. Job 39:26 : Jer 8:7
  151. Job 39:27 : Jer 49:16; Ob 1:4; Hab 2:9
  152. Job 39:28 : Jer 49:16; Ob 1:3
  153. Job 39:29 : S Job 9:26
  154. Job 39:30 : Mt 24:28; Lk 17:37
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2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10

13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”[a](A) Since we have that same spirit of[b] faith,(B) we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead(C) will also raise us with Jesus(D) and present us with you to himself.(E) 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving(F) to overflow to the glory of God.

16 Therefore we do not lose heart.(G) Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly(H) we are being renewed(I) day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.(J) 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen,(K) since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Awaiting the New Body

5 For we know that if the earthly(L) tent(M) we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan,(N) longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,(O) 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan(P) and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,(Q) so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.(R)

6 Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight.(S) 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.(T) 9 So we make it our goal to please him,(U) whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us(V) for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Corinthians 4:13 Psalm 116:10 (see Septuagint)
  2. 2 Corinthians 4:13 Or Spirit-given

Cross references:

  1. 2 Corinthians 4:13 : Ps 116:10
  2. 2 Corinthians 4:13 : 1Co 12:9
  3. 2 Corinthians 4:14 : S Ac 2:24
  4. 2 Corinthians 4:14 : 1Th 4:14
  5. 2 Corinthians 4:14 : Eph 5:27; Col 1:22; Jude 24
  6. 2 Corinthians 4:15 : 2Co 1:11; 9:11
  7. 2 Corinthians 4:16 : ver 1; Ps 18:45
  8. 2 Corinthians 4:16 : Ro 7:22
  9. 2 Corinthians 4:16 : Ps 103:5; Isa 40:31; Col 3:10
  10. 2 Corinthians 4:17 : Ps 30:5; Ro 8:18; 1Pe 1:6, 7
  11. 2 Corinthians 4:18 : 2Co 5:7; Ro 8:24; Heb 11:1
  12. 2 Corinthians 5:1 : 1Co 15:47
  13. 2 Corinthians 5:1 : Isa 38:12; 2Pe 1:13, 14
  14. 2 Corinthians 5:2 : ver 4; Ro 8:23
  15. 2 Corinthians 5:2 : ver 4; 1Co 15:53, 54
  16. 2 Corinthians 5:4 : ver 2; Ro 8:23
  17. 2 Corinthians 5:4 : ver 2; 1Co 15:53, 54
  18. 2 Corinthians 5:5 : Ro 8:23; 2Co 1:22; Eph 1:13, 14
  19. 2 Corinthians 5:7 : 1Co 13:12; S 2Co 4:18
  20. 2 Corinthians 5:8 : S Jn 12:26
  21. 2 Corinthians 5:9 : Ro 14:18; Eph 5:10; Col 1:10; 1Th 4:1
  22. 2 Corinthians 5:10 : S Mt 16:27; Ac 10:42; Ro 2:16; 14:10; Eph 6:8
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Psalm 44:9-26

9 But now you have rejected(A) and humbled us;(B)
you no longer go out with our armies.(C)
10 You made us retreat(D) before the enemy,
and our adversaries have plundered(E) us.
11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep(F)
and have scattered us among the nations.(G)
12 You sold your people for a pittance,(H)
gaining nothing from their sale.

13 You have made us a reproach(I) to our neighbors,(J)
the scorn(K) and derision(L) of those around us.
14 You have made us a byword(M) among the nations;
the peoples shake their heads(N) at us.
15 I live in disgrace(O) all day long,
and my face is covered with shame(P)
16 at the taunts(Q) of those who reproach and revile(R) me,
because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.(S)

17 All this came upon us,
though we had not forgotten(T) you;
we had not been false to your covenant.
18 Our hearts had not turned(U) back;
our feet had not strayed from your path.
19 But you crushed(V) us and made us a haunt for jackals;(W)
you covered us over with deep darkness.(X)

20 If we had forgotten(Y) the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,(Z)
21 would not God have discovered it,
since he knows the secrets of the heart?(AA)
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep(AB) to be slaughtered.(AC)

23 Awake,(AD) Lord! Why do you sleep?(AE)
Rouse yourself!(AF) Do not reject us forever.(AG)
24 Why do you hide your face(AH)
and forget(AI) our misery and oppression?(AJ)

25 We are brought down to the dust;(AK)
our bodies cling to the ground.
26 Rise up(AL) and help us;
rescue(AM) us because of your unfailing love.(AN)

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 44:9 : S Ps 43:2
  2. Psalm 44:9 : S Dt 8:3; S 31:17; Ps 107:39; Isa 5:15
  3. Psalm 44:9 : S Jos 7:12; Ps 108:11
  4. Psalm 44:10 : S Lev 26:17
  5. Psalm 44:10 : S Jdg 2:14
  6. Psalm 44:11 : ver 22; Jer 12:3
  7. Psalm 44:11 : S Lev 26:33; S Ps 9:11; Eze 6:8; Zec 2:6
  8. Psalm 44:12 : S Dt 32:30; Isa 52:3; Jer 15:13; 50:1; 52:3
  9. Psalm 44:13 : S 2Ch 29:8; Isa 30:3; Jer 25:9; 42:18; 44:8
  10. Psalm 44:13 : Ps 79:4; 80:6; 89:41
  11. Psalm 44:13 : S Dt 28:37; S Mic 2:6
  12. Psalm 44:13 : Eze 23:32
  13. Psalm 44:14 : S 1Ki 9:7
  14. Psalm 44:14 : S 2Ki 19:21
  15. Psalm 44:15 : Ge 30:23; 2Ch 32:21; Ps 35:26
  16. Psalm 44:15 : S Ps 34:5
  17. Psalm 44:16 : S Ps 42:10
  18. Psalm 44:16 : Ps 10:13; 55:3; 74:10
  19. Psalm 44:16 : S 1Sa 18:25; S Jer 11:19; Ro 12:19
  20. Psalm 44:17 : S Dt 6:12; S 32:18; Ps 119:16, 61, 153, 176; Pr 3:1
  21. Psalm 44:18 : Ps 119:51, 157
  22. Psalm 44:19 : S 2Ch 14:13; Ps 51:8
  23. Psalm 44:19 : S Job 30:29; S Isa 34:13
  24. Psalm 44:19 : S Job 3:5
  25. Psalm 44:20 : S Dt 32:18; S Jdg 3:7
  26. Psalm 44:20 : S Ex 20:3; Isa 43:12; Jer 5:19
  27. Psalm 44:21 : S 1Sa 16:7; 1Ki 8:39; Pr 15:11; Jer 12:3; 17:10
  28. Psalm 44:22 : S ver 11
  29. Psalm 44:22 : Isa 53:7; Jer 11:19; 12:3; Ro 8:36*
  30. Psalm 44:23 : S Ps 7:6
  31. Psalm 44:23 : Ps 78:65
  32. Psalm 44:23 : Ps 59:5
  33. Psalm 44:23 : Ps 74:1; 77:7
  34. Psalm 44:24 : S Dt 32:20; Ps 13:1
  35. Psalm 44:24 : La 5:20
  36. Psalm 44:24 : S Dt 26:7
  37. Psalm 44:25 : Ps 119:25
  38. Psalm 44:26 : S Nu 10:35; S Ps 12:5; 102:13
  39. Psalm 44:26 : Ps 26:11
  40. Psalm 44:26 : Ps 6:4
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Proverbs 22:13

13 The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!(A)
I’ll be killed in the public square!”

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 22:13 : Pr 26:13
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