Reading
The Book of Job 9: 1-12, 14-16
9:1 | And Job, responding, said: |
9:2 | Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God. |
9:3 | If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times. |
9:4 | He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace? |
9:5 | He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it. |
9:6 | He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble. |
9:7 | He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal. |
9:8 | He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea. |
9:9 | He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south. |
9:10 | He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered. |
9:11 | If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand. |
9:12 | If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?” |
9:14 | what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him? |
9:15 | And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge. |
9:16 | And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice. |
Gospel
The Holy Gospel According to Luke 9: 57-62
9:57 | And it happened that, as they were walking along the way, someone said to him, “I will follow you, wherever you will go.” |
9:58 | Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” |
9:59 | Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” |
9:60 | And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.” |
9:61 | And another said: “I will follow you, Lord. But permit me first to explain this to those of my house.” |
9:62 | Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” |
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