Through the Bible in a Year — 2026-162

0:00Send out your bread upon the face of the water. For an great number of days you will find it. Give a portion to seven, indeed to eight. For you do not know what bad condition will be upon the earth. If the clouds are full of rain upon the earth they will pour out. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree will fall, there it will be. One who watches the wind will not sow, and one who looks at the clouds will not reap. When one does not know what the way of the Spirit is, like bones in the belly of the pregnant woman, so you will not know the works of God, whatever he will do. In the morning sow your seed, and to the evening do not let your hand be slack. For you do not know what sort will fit, whether this or that, and whether the two are good together. Light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun. For even if a person will live many years, in them all he will be married,

1:01and he will remember the days of darkness, because they will be many. All that is coming is vanity. Rejoice young man in your youth, and let your heart do you good in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart, and by the sight of your eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Put away anger from your heart, and divert pain from your body, for youth and lack of understanding are vanity. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come, and the years arrive in which you will say, I have no wish for them, before the sun and the light in the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the guards of the house shake, and the strong men are twisted, and the women who grime ceased working, because they are few, and those who look through the windows will be dimmed, and they will lock the doors in the market, because of the weakness of the sound of the woman who grines,

2:04and one will rise up at the sound of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song will be brought low. Indeed they will see from heights, and terrors will be in the road. When the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper becomes fat, and the caperberry is scattered, because mortals went to their eternal home, and the mourners circled in the market. Before the cord of silver is ruined, and the blossom of gold is crushed, and the picture is broken at the fountain, and the wheel at the sister-in-racies together, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to the God who gave it. Vanity of vanities said the ecclesiast, all is vanity. Beyond the fact that the ecclesiast was wise, he also taught the people knowledge, and in ear will track out an arrangement of parables. The ecclesiast sought many ways to find the words he wanted, even something written of straight-forwardness, words of truth. The words of the wise are like oxcodes

3:06and like nails firmly planted. Those from the collections were given from one shepherd and a surplus of them. My son beware of making many books, there is no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh. The end of the message all is heard, fear God and keep His commandments, for this is every person, for God will bring every work and judgment in everything overlooked, whether good or whether evil. There was a certain man in the land of Al-Sethis, whose name was Job, and that man was genuine, blameless, righteous, religious, staying away from every evil thing. Now there were born to Him seven sons and three daughters, and his livestock were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 she-donkeys at pasture, as well he had very many servants and extensive activities in the land,

4:06and that man was well born among those of the east. Now his sons used to gather with one another and hold a feast each day. They used to take along their three sisters as well, to eat and drink with them, and when the feast days had run their course, Job used to send and purify them, rising early in the morning, and he used to offer a sacrifice on their behalf, according to their number. And one bullcafe is a sin offering for their souls, for Job said, perhaps my sons thought bad things in their mind toward God. So this is what Job would always do. And when the set day came, then look, the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and the slanderer came with them. And the Lord said to the slanderer, where have you come from? And the slanderer answered the Lord, I have come after going round the earth and walking about what lies beneath heaven. And the Lord said to him, did you give thought to your disposition

5:07against my servant, Job, because there is no one of those on the earth like him, a man who is blameless, genuine, religious, staying away from every evil thing? Then the slanderer answered and said before the Lord, does Job really worship the Lord for nothing? Have you not put a fence around things external to him? Both what is within his household, as well as what is outside of all that belongs to him all around. You bless the works of his hands and his livestock you increased on the earth. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, surely he will bless you to your face. Then the Lord said to the slanderer, look, all that he has, I am giving into your power, but do not touch him. So the slanderer went out from the Lord. So it was when it was the set day, Job's sons and daughters were drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. And look, a messenger came to Job and said to him,

6:08the yolks of oxen were plowing, and the she-donkeys were feeding beside them. And Marauders came and carried them off, and they killed the servants with daggers. But when I alone escaped, I came to tell you, while he was still speaking, a further messenger came and said to Job, fire fell from heaven and burned up the sheep, and it likewise consumed the shepherds, and when I alone escaped, I came to tell you, while he was still speaking, a further messenger came and said to Job, horsemen formed three columns against us, and they encircled the camels and carried them off, and killed the servants with daggers. But I alone escaped and I came to tell you, while he was still speaking, another messenger came saying to Job, as your sons and daughters were eating and drinking at their elder brothers, suddenly a great wind came from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and the house fell on your children, and they died, but I alone escaped,

7:08and I came to tell you. So Job arose, tore his clothes, then shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the ground and did obeisance and said, I came naked from my mother's womb, naked also shall I return there. The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away, as it seemed good to the Lord, so it turned out, blessed be the name of the Lord. In all these things that happened to him, Job did not sin at all before the Lord, and he did not charge God with folly. Now it happened when it was the set day and the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, the slanderer also came among them to present himself before the Lord, and the Lord said to the slanderer, where are you coming from? And the slanderer said before the Lord, I have come after traversing with lies beneath heaven and walking about everything. Then the Lord said, so did you notice my attendant Job, that there is no one of those on the earth like him,

8:10an innocent, genuine, blameless, religious man, staying away from all wrong, and still maintains his innocence, though you said to destroy his possessions for no reason. Then the slanderer continued and said to the Lord, skin for skin, whatever a person has he will use to pay for his life. However, stretch out your hand and touch his bones in his flesh, surely he will bless you to your face. Then the Lord said to the slanderer, very well, I am handing him over to you, only spare his life. So the slanderer went out from the Lord, and he struck Job with a grievous, festering sore from his foot to his head, and he took a potchard so that he could scrape away the pus and sat on the rubbishy outside the city. Then after a long time had passed, his wife said to him, how long will you persist and say, look, I will hang on a little longer, while I wait for the hope of my deliverance.

9:11For look, your legacy has vanished from the earth. Sons and daughters, my wounds, birth pangs and labors, for whom I wearied myself with hardships in vain. And you, you sit in the refuse of worms as you spend the night in the open air. As for me, I am one that wanders about, and a hired servant, from place to place and house to house, waiting for when the sun will set, so I can rest from the distresses and griefs that now be set me. Now say some word to the Lord and die. But Job looked up and said to her, you have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we receive the good things from the Lord's hand, shall we not bear the bad? In all these things that happened to him, Job did not sin at all with his lips before God. Now in his three friends heard of all the troubles that had come upon him, they came to him, each one from his own country. Elephaz, the king of the Tamanites, Baldad, the tyrant of the Salkites,

10:13so far the king of the Minites, and they came to him of one accord to comfort and to visit with him. But when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they cried out with a loud voice and wept. Each of them tore his robe, and they sprinkled themselves with dust. They sat with him seven days and seven nights, and none of them spoke, for they saw that the calamity was dire and very great. After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day, saying, may the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which they said, look, a man child, may that day be darkness, and may the Lord above not seek it, or light come to it. But made darkness and deathly shadow sees it, may gloom come upon it, may that day and night be cursed, may darkness carry it away, may it not exist among the days of the year, or be numbered among the days of the months. Rather may that night be anguish,

11:14and may gladness enjoy not come upon it. Rather may he who curses that day curse it, he who is about to subdue the great sea monster, may the stars of that night be dark, may it remain so and not be lit up, and may it not see the morning star rising, because it did not shut the gates of my mother's womb, for it would have put away trouble from my eyes. For what reason did I not die in the womb, or come forth from the belly and not perish at once? Why then did knees meet me? Why then did I suck breasts? Now I would have lain down quiet, and in my sleep would have been at rest, with King's counselors of the earth, who used to act proudly thanks to rapiers, or with rulers who had much gold, who had filled their houses with silver. Or why was I not like a premature bird that comes from a mother's womb, or like infants that did not see the light? There the impious have kindled a terrible wrath,

12:14there the very weary have found rest for the body, and those of old together have not heard the voice of the tax-gatherer, small and great are there, and the attendant who lived in fear of his master. Why then is light given to those in bitterness, and life to souls in pain, who long for death and do not find it, though they are digging for it as for treasures, yet they would be very joyful, if they were successful. Death is rest for such a man, for God shut him in, for sighing comes before my food, and I cry gripped by fear. For fear which was my worry came to me, and the fear I dreaded befell me. I was neither at peace, nor did I have quiet, nor was I at rest, but anger came to me.