November 6, 2026

Job15

Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,

and fill his belly with the east wind?

3 Should he argue in unprofitable talk,

or in words with which he can do no good?

4 But you are doing away with the fear of God

and hindering meditation before God.

5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,

and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;

your own lips testify against you.

7 “Are you the first man who was born?

Or were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Have you listened in the council of God?

And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know that we do not know?

What do you understand that is not clear to us?

10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,

older than your father.

11 Are the comforts of God too small for you,

or the word that deals gently with you?

12 Why does your heart carry you away,

and why do your eyes flash,

13 that you turn your spirit against God

and bring such words out of your mouth?

14 What is man, that he can be pure?

Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

15 Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones,

and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

a man who drinks injustice like water!

17 “I will show you; hear me,

and what I have seen I will declare

18 (what wise men have told,

without hiding it from their fathers,

19 to whom alone the land was given,

and no stranger passed among them).

20 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears;

in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,

and he is marked for the sword.

23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

24 distress and anguish terrify him;

they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God

and defies the Almighty,

26 running stubbornly against him

with a thickly bossed shield;

27 because he has covered his face with his fat

and gathered fat upon his waist

28 and has lived in desolate cities,

in houses that none should inhabit,

which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

29 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,

nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

30 he will not depart from darkness;

the flame will dry up his shoots,

and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,

for emptiness will be his payment.

32 It will be paid in full before his time,

and his branch will not be green.

33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,

and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

34 For the company of the godless is barren,

and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,

and their womb prepares deceit.”

Job16

Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 “I have heard many such things;

miserable comforters are you all.

3 Shall windy words have an end?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

4 I also could speak as you do,

if you were in my place;

I could join words together against you

and shake my head at you.

5 I could strengthen you with my mouth,

and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,

and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

7 Surely now God has worn me out;

he has made desolate all my company.

8 And he has shriveled me up,

which is a witness against me,

and my leanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

9 He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;

he has gnashed his teeth at me;

my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

10 Men have gaped at me with their mouth;

they have struck me insolently on the cheek;

they mass themselves together against me.

11 God gives me up to the ungodly

and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;

he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;

he set me up as his target;

13 his archers surround me.

He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;

he pours out my gall on the ground.

14 He breaks me with breach upon breach;

he runs upon me like a warrior.

15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin

and have laid my strength in the dust.

16 My face is red with weeping,

and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

17 although there is no violence in my hands,

and my prayer is pure.

18 “O earth, cover not my blood,

and let my cry find no resting place.

19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

and he who testifies for me is on high.

20 My friends scorn me;

my eye pours out tears to God,

21 that he would argue the case of a man with God,

as a son of man does with his neighbor.

22 For when a few years have come

I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Job17

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;

the graveyard is ready for me.

2 Surely there are mockers about me,

and my eye dwells on their provocation.

3 “Lay down a pledge for me with you;

who is there who will put up security for me?

4 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,

therefore you will not let them triumph.

5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—

the eyes of his children will fail.

6 “He has made me a byword of the peoples,

and I am one before whom men spit.

7 My eye has grown dim from vexation,

and all my members are like a shadow.

8 The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

9 Yet the righteous holds to his way,

and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

10 But you, come on again, all of you,

and I shall not find a wise man among you.

11 My days are past; my plans are broken off,

the desires of my heart.

12 They make night into day:

‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

13 If I hope for Sheol as my house,

if I make my bed in darkness,

14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’

and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

15 where then is my hope?

Who will see my hope?

16 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?

Shall we descend together into the dust?”

Job18

Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked

1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

2 “How long will you hunt for words?

Consider, and then we will speak.

3 Why are we counted as cattle?

Why are we stupid in your sight?

4 You who tear yourself in your anger,

shall the earth be forsaken for you,

or the rock be removed out of its place?

5 “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out,

and the flame of his fire does not shine.

6 The light is dark in his tent,

and his lamp above him is put out.

7 His strong steps are shortened,

and his own schemes throw him down.

8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

and he walks on its mesh.

9 A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare lays hold of him.

10 A rope is hidden for him in the ground,

a trap for him in the path.

11 Terrors frighten him on every side,

and chase him at his heels.

12 His strength is famished,

and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

13 It consumes the parts of his skin;

the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

14 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted

and is brought to the king of terrors.

15 In his tent dwells that which is none of his;

sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

16 His roots dry up beneath,

and his branches wither above.

17 His memory perishes from the earth,

and he has no name in the street.

18 He is thrust from light into darkness,

and driven out of the world.

19 He has no posterity or progeny among his people,

and no survivor where he used to live.

20 They of the west are appalled at his day,

and horror seizes them of the east.

21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,

such is the place of him who knows not God.”

Hebrews4

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,

“As I swore in my wrath,

‘They shall not enter my rest,’”

although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said,

“They shall not enter my rest.”

6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

“Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts.”

8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.

11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Jesus the Great High Priest

14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews5

1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. 3 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people. 4 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.

5 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,

“You are my Son,

today I have begotten you”;

6 as he says also in another place,

“You are a priest forever,

after the order of Melchizedek.”

7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 9 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Warning Against Apostasy

11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.