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Job 19: 1-27a

Job Replies: I Know That My Redeemer Lives

19Then Job answered:
2 ‘How long will you torment me,
   and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
   are you not ashamed to wrong me?
4 And even if it is true that I have erred,
   my error remains with me.
5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me,
   and make my humiliation an argument against me,
6 know then that God has put me in the wrong,
   and closed his net around me.
7 Even when I cry out, “Violence!” I am not answered;
   I call aloud, but there is no justice.
8 He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
   and he has set darkness upon my paths.
9 He has stripped my glory from me,
   and taken the crown from my head.
10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,
   he has uprooted my hope like a tree.
11 He has kindled his wrath against me,
   and counts me as his adversary.
12 His troops come on together;
   they have thrown up siege-works* against me,
   and encamp around my tent.


13 ‘He has put my family far from me,
   and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15   the guests in my house have forgotten me;
my serving-girls count me as a stranger;
   I have become an alien in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
   I must myself plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife;
   I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even young children despise me;
   when I rise, they talk against me.
19 All my intimate friends abhor me,
   and those whom I loved have turned against me.
20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh,
   and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
   for the hand of God has touched me!
22 Why do you, like God, pursue me,
   never satisfied with my flesh?


23 ‘O that my words were written down!
   O that they were inscribed in a book!
24 O that with an iron pen and with lead
   they were engraved on a rock for ever!
25 For I know that my Redeemer* lives,
   and that at the last he* will stand upon the earth;*
26 and after my skin has been thus destroyed,
   then in* my flesh I shall see God,*
27 whom I shall see on my side,*
   and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
   My heart faints within me!

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Sirach 38: 24-34

Trades and Crafts


24 The wisdom of the scribe depends on the opportunity of leisure;
   only the one who has little business can become wise.
25 How can one become wise who handles the plough,
   and who glories in the shaft of a goad,
who drives oxen and is occupied with their work,
   and whose talk is about bulls?
26 He sets his heart on ploughing furrows,
   and he is careful about fodder for the heifers.
27 So it is with every artisan and master artisan
   who labours by night as well as by day;
those who cut the signets of seals,
   each is diligent in making a great variety;
they set their heart on painting a lifelike image,
   and they are careful to finish their work.
28 So it is with the smith, sitting by the anvil,
   intent on his ironwork;
the breath of the fire melts his flesh,
   and he struggles with the heat of the furnace;
the sound of the hammer deafens his ears,*
   and his eyes are on the pattern of the object.
He sets his heart on finishing his handiwork,
   and he is careful to complete its decoration.
29 So it is with is the potter sitting at his work
   and turning the wheel with his feet;
he is always deeply concerned over his products,
   and he produces them in quantity.
30 He moulds the clay with his arm
   and makes it pliable with his feet;
he sets his heart on finishing the glazing,
   and he takes care in firing* the kiln.


31 All these rely on their hands,
   and all are skilful in their own work.
32 Without them no city can be inhabited,
   and wherever they live, they will not go hungry.*
Yet they are not sought out for the council of the people,*
33   nor do they attain eminence in the public assembly.
They do not sit in the judge’s seat,
   nor do they understand the decisions of the courts;
they cannot expound discipline or judgement,
   and they are not found among the rulers.*
34 But they maintain the fabric of the world,
   and their concern is for* the exercise of their trade.

The Activity of the Scribe


How different the one who devotes himself
   to the study of the law of the Most High!

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