OT Marathon Jan 27

Job 15-18   (New International Version) Eliphaz 15 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2 “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind? 3 Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value? 4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God. […]

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OT Marathon Jan 25

Job 12-14 (New International Version) Job 12 Then Job replied: 2 “Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you! 3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things? 4 “I have become a laughingstock to […]

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OT Marathon Jan 24

Job 8-11 (New International Version) Bildad 8 Then Bildad the Shuhite replied: 2 “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind. 3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? 4 When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin. […]

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OT Marathon Jan 23

Job 5 – 7 Chapter 5 “Call if you will, but who will answer you?  To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 Resentment kills a fool,  and envy slays the simple. 3 I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. 4 His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a […]

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OT Marathon Jan 22

Job 1-4 Prologue 1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a […]

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