September 30, 2026

1Then Job answered and said: 2I know well that it is so; but how can anyone be in the right before God? 3Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times. 4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained whole? 5He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger. 6He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble. 7He commands the sun, and it does not rise; he seals up the stars. 8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the back of the sea. 9He made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south; 10He does things great and unsearchable, things marvelous and innumerable. 11Should he come near me, I do not see him; should he pass by, I am not aware of him; 12Should he seize me forcibly, who can resist? Who can say to him, “What are you doing?” 14How then could I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him! 15Even though I were right, I could not answer, but should rather beg for what was due me. 16If I appealed to him and he answered me, I could not believe that he would listen to me;

10my eyes grow dim from trouble. All day I call on you, LORD; I stretch out my hands to you. 11Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the shades arise and praise you? Selah 12III - Is your mercy proclaimed in the grave, your faithfulness among those who have perished? 13Are your marvels declared in the darkness, your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion? 14IV - But I cry out to you, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 15Why do you reject my soul, LORD, and hide your face from me?

8More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on faith

57As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” 59And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “[Lord,] let me go first and bury my father.” 60But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61And another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.” 62[To him] Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”