Reading 1, Job 9:1-12, 14-16<\/em> 1 Job spoke next. He said:<\/p> 2 Indeed, I know it is as you say: how could anyone claim to be upright before God?<\/p> 3 Anyone trying to argue matters with him, could not give him one answer in a thousand.<\/p> 4 Among the wisest and the hardiest, who then can successfully defy him?<\/p> 5 He moves the mountains, though they do not know it; he throws them down when he is angry.<\/p> 6 He shakes the earth, and moves it from its place, making all its pillars tremble.<\/p> 7 The sun, at his command, forbears to rise, and on the stars he sets a seal.<\/p> 8 He and no other has stretched out the heavens and trampled on the back of the Sea.<\/p> 9 He has made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the Mansions of the South.<\/p> 10 The works he does are great and unfathomable, and his marvels cannot be counted.<\/p> 11 If he passes me, I do not see him; he slips by, imperceptible to me.<\/p> 12 If he snatches his prey, who is going to stop him or dare to ask, 'What are you doing?'<\/p> 14 And here am I, proposing to defend myself and select my arguments against him!<\/p> 15 Even if I am upright, what point is there in answering him? I can only plead for mercy with my judge!<\/p> 16 And if he deigned to answer my citation, I cannot believe he would listen to what I said,<\/p> 10 Do you work wonders for the dead, can shadows rise up to praise you?<\/p> 11 Do they speak in the grave of your faithful love, of your constancy in the place of perdition?<\/p> 12 Are your wonders known in the darkness, your saving justice in the land of oblivion?<\/p> 13 But, for my part, I cry to you, Yahweh, every morning my prayer comes before you;<\/p> 14 why, Yahweh, do you rebuff me, turn your face away from me?<\/p> 15 Wretched and close to death since childhood, I have borne your terrors -- I am finished!<\/p> 57 As they travelled along they met a man on the road who said to him, 'I will follow you wherever you go.'<\/p> 58 Jesus answered, 'Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.'<\/p> 59 Another to whom he said, 'Follow me,' replied, 'Let me go and bury my father first.'<\/p> 60 But he answered, 'Leave the dead to bury their dead; your duty is to go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.'<\/p> 61 Another said, 'I will follow you, sir, but first let me go and say good -- bye to my people at home.'<\/p> 62 Jesus said to him, 'Once the hand is laid on the plough, no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.'<\/p>","categories":[{"id":160,"name":"Daily Bible"}],"tags":[]}
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 88:10-11, 12-13, 14-15<\/em>
Gospel, Luke 9:57-62<\/em><\/p>Reading 1, Job 9:1-12, 14-16<\/h3>
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 88:10-11, 12-13, 14-15<\/h3>
Gospel, Luke 9:57-62<\/h3>