October 6, 2028

1Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm and said: 12Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place 13For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from it? 14The earth is changed as clay by the seal, and dyed like a garment; 15But from the wicked their light is withheld, and the arm of pride is shattered. 16Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about on the bottom of the deep? 17Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness? 18Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all. 19What is the way to the dwelling of light, and darkness—where is its place? 20That you may take it to its territory and know the paths to its home? 21You know, because you were born then, and the number of your days is great! 3Then Job answered the LORD and said: 4Look, I am of little account; what can I answer you? I put my hand over my mouth. 5I have spoken once, I will not reply; twice, but I will do so no more.

1Psalm 139 The All-knowing and Ever-present God - For the leader. A psalm of David. I - LORD, you have probed me, you know me: 2you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. 3You sift through my travels and my rest; with all my ways you are familiar. 7Where can I go from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee? 8If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, there you are. 9If I take the wings of dawn and dwell beyond the sea, 10Even there your hand guides me, your right hand holds me fast. 13II - You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know.

8Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the desert.

13“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ 16Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”