Leitura diária na versão Bible American Standard - Inglês
Then Job answered and said,
Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
My soul refuseth to touch [them] They are as loathsome food to me.
Oh that I might have my request And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Even that it would please God to crush me That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed] from his friend Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away
Which are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the snow hideth itself:
What time they wax warm, they vanish When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside They go up into the waste, and perish.
The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
They were put to shame because they had hoped They came thither, and were confounded.
For now ye are nothing Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?
Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
Teach me, and I will hold my peace And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
Now therefore be pleased to look upon me For surely I shall not lie to your face.
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth I will speak in the anguish of my spirit I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint
Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
I loathe [my life] I would not live alway: Let me alone for my days are vanity.
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression
If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty
If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow)
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?
Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.
So are the paths of all that forget God And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.
His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.
If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
Behold, this is the joy of his way And out of the earth shall others spring.
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth
so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure
[which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.
To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power
that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.