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Daily Bible Reading | Job 23

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:00:52 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 23

Job Replies: Where Is God?

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[2] “Today also my complaint is bitter;

my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.

[3] Oh, that I knew where I might find him,

that I might come even to his seat!

[4] I would lay my case before him

and fill my mouth with arguments.

[5] I would know what he would answer me

and understand what he would say to me.

[6] Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?

No; he would pay attention to me.

[7] There an upright man could argue with him,

and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

[8] “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there,

and backward, but I do not perceive him;

[9] on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;

he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.

[10] But he knows the way that I take;

when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

[11] My foot has held fast to his steps;

I have kept his way and have not turned aside.

[12] I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;

I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

[13] But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back?

What he desires, that he does.

[14] For he will complete what he appoints for me,

and many such things are in his mind.

[15] Therefore I am terrified at his presence;

when I consider, I am in dread of him.

[16] God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me;

[17] yet I am not silenced because of the darkness,

nor because thick darkness covers my face. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 22

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:00:42 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 22

Eliphaz Speaks: Job’s Wickedness Is Great

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

[2] “Can a man be profitable to God?

Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

[3] Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,

or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

[4] Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you

and enters into judgment with you?

[5] Is not your evil abundant?

There is no end to your iniquities.

[6] For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing

and stripped the naked of their clothing.

[7] You have given no water to the weary to drink,

and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

[8] The man with power possessed the land,

and the favored man lived in it.

[9] You have sent widows away empty,

and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

[10] Therefore snares are all around you,

and sudden terror overwhelms you,

[11] or darkness, so that you cannot see,

and a flood of water covers you.

[12] “Is not God high in the heavens?

See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

[13] But you say, ‘What does God know?

Can he judge through the deep darkness?

[14] Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,

and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

[15] Will you keep to the old way

that wicked men have trod?

[16] They were snatched away before their time;

their foundation was washed away.

[17] They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’

and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

[18] Yet he filled their houses with good things—

but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

[19] The righteous see it and are glad;

the innocent one mocks at them,

[20] saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,

and what they left the fire has consumed.’

[21] “Agree with God, and be at peace;

thereby good will come to you.

[22] Receive instruction from his mouth,

and lay up his words in your heart.

[23] If you return to the Almighty you will be built up;

if you remove injustice far from your tents,

[24] if you lay gold in the dust,

and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,

[25] then the Almighty will be your gold

and your precious silver.

[26] For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty

and lift up your face to God.

[27] You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you,

and you will pay your vows.

[28] You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you,

and light will shine on your ways.

[29] For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;

but he saves the lowly.

[30] He delivers even the one who is not innocent,

who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 21

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:00:38 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 21

Job Replies: The Wicked Do Prosper

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[2] “Keep listening to my words,

and let this be your comfort.

[3] Bear with me, and I will speak,

and after I have spoken, mock on.

[4] As for me, is my complaint against man?

Why should I not be impatient?

[5] Look at me and be appalled,

and lay your hand over your mouth.

[6] When I remember, I am dismayed,

and shuddering seizes my flesh.

[7] Why do the wicked live,

reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

[8] Their offspring are established in their presence,

and their descendants before their eyes.

[9] Their houses are safe from fear,

and no rod of God is upon them.

[10] Their bull breeds without fail;

their cow calves and does not miscarry.

[11] They send out their little boys like a flock,

and their children dance.

[12] They sing to the tambourine and the lyre

and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

[13] They spend their days in prosperity,

and in peace they go down to Sheol.

[14] They say to God, ‘Depart from us!

We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

[15] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

[16] Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

[17] “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?

That their calamity comes upon them?

That God distributes pains in his anger?

[18] That they are like straw before the wind,

and like chaff that the storm carries away?

[19] You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’

Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

[20] Let their own eyes see their destruction,

and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

[21] For what do they care for their houses after them,

when the number of their months is cut off?

[22] Will any teach God knowledge,

seeing that he judges those who are on high?

[23] One dies in his full vigor,

being wholly at ease and secure,

[24] his pails full of milk

and the marrow of his bones moist.

[25] Another dies in bitterness of soul,

never having tasted of prosperity.

[26] They lie down alike in the dust,

and the worms cover them.

[27] “Behold, I know your thoughts

and your schemes to wrong me.

[28] For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?

Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

[29] Have you not asked those who travel the roads,

and do you not accept their testimony

[30] that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,

that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

[31] Who declares his way to his face,

and who repays him for what he has done?

[32] When he is carried to the grave,

watch is kept over his tomb.

[33] The clods of the valley are sweet to him;

all mankind follows after him,

and those who go before him are innumerable.

[34] How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?

There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 20

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:00:47 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 20

Zophar Speaks: The Wicked Will Suffer

[1] Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

[2] “Therefore my thoughts answer me,

because of my haste within me.

[3] I hear censure that insults me,

and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

[4] Do you not know this from of old,

since man was placed on earth,

[5] that the exulting of the wicked is short,

and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

[6] Though his height mount up to the heavens,

and his head reach to the clouds,

[7] he will perish forever like his own dung;

those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

[8] He will fly away like a dream and not be found;

he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

[9] The eye that saw him will see him no more,

nor will his place any more behold him.

[10] His children will seek the favor of the poor,

and his hands will give back his wealth.

[11] His bones are full of his youthful vigor,

but it will lie down with him in the dust.

[12] “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,

though he hides it under his tongue,

[13] though he is loath to let it go

and holds it in his mouth,

[14] yet his food is turned in his stomach;

it is the venom of cobras within him.

[15] He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;

God casts them out of his belly.

[16] He will suck the poison of cobras;

the tongue of a viper will kill him.

[17] He will not look upon the rivers,

the streams flowing with honey and curds.

[18] He will give back the fruit of his toil

and will not swallow it down;

from the profit of his trading

he will get no enjoyment.

[19] For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;

he has seized a house that he did not build.

[20] “Because he knew no contentment in his belly,

he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.

[21] There was nothing left after he had eaten;

therefore his prosperity will not endure.

[22] In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;

the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.

[23] To fill his belly to the full,

God will send his burning anger against him

and rain it upon him into his body.

[24] He will flee from an iron weapon;

a bronze arrow will strike him through.

[25] It is drawn forth and comes out of his body;

the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder;

terrors come upon him.

[26] Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;

a fire not fanned will devour him;

what is left in his tent will be consumed.

[27] The heavens will reveal his iniquity,

and the earth will rise up against him.

[28] The possessions of his house will be carried away,

dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.

[29] This is the wicked man’s portion from God,

the heritage decreed for him by God.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 19

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:48 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 19

Job Replies: My Redeemer Lives

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[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 be true that I have erred,

my error remains with myself.

[5] If indeed you magnify yourselves against me

and make my disgrace an argument against me,

[6] know then that God has put me in the wrong

and closed his net about me.

[7] Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;

I call for help, 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 from me my glory

and taken the crown from my head.

[10] He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone,

and my hope has he pulled up 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 cast up their siege ramp against me

and encamp around my tent.

[13] “He has put my brothers far from me,

and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.

[14] My relatives have failed me,

my close friends have forgotten me.

[15] The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;

I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

[16] I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;

I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

[17] My breath is strange to my wife,

and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

[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 stick to my skin and to my flesh,

and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

[21] Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,

for the hand of God has touched me!

[22] Why do you, like God, pursue me?

Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

[23] “Oh that my words were written!

Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

[24] Oh that with an iron pen and lead

they were engraved in the rock forever!

[25] For I know that my Redeemer lives,

and at the last he will stand upon the earth.

[26] And after my skin has been thus destroyed,

yet in my flesh I shall see God,

[27] whom I shall see for myself,

and my eyes shall behold, and not another.

My heart faints within me!

[28] If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’

and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’

[29] be afraid of the sword,

for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,

that you may know there is a judgment.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 18

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:00:43 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 18

Bildad Speaks: God Punishes the Wicked

[1] Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

[2] “How long will you hunt for words?

Consider, and then we will speak.

[3] Why are we counted as cattle?

Why are we stupid in your sight?

[4] You who tear yourself in your anger,

shall the earth be forsaken for you,

or the rock be removed out of its place?

[5] “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out,

and the flame of his fire does not shine.

[6] The light is dark in his tent,

and his lamp above him is put out.

[7] His strong steps are shortened,

and his own schemes throw him down.

[8] For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

and he walks on its mesh.

[9] A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare lays hold of him.

[10] A rope is hidden for him in the ground,

a trap for him in the path.

[11] Terrors frighten him on every side,

and chase him at his heels.

[12] His strength is famished,

and calamity is ready for his stumbling.

[13] It consumes the parts of his skin;

the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.

[14] He is torn from the tent in which he trusted

and is brought to the king of terrors.

[15] In his tent dwells that which is none of his;

sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

[16] His roots dry up beneath,

and his branches wither above.

[17] His memory perishes from the earth,

and he has no name in the street.

[18] He is thrust from light into darkness,

and driven out of the world.

[19] He has no posterity or progeny among his people,

and no survivor where he used to live.

[20] They of the west are appalled at his day,

and horror seizes them of the east.

[21] Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous,

such is the place of him who knows not God.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 17

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:00:43 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 17

Job Continues: Where Then Is My Hope?

[1] “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct;

the graveyard is ready for me.

[2] Surely there are mockers about me,

and my eye dwells on their provocation.

[3] “Lay down a pledge for me with you;

who is there who will put up security for me?

[4] Since you have closed their hearts to understanding,

therefore you will not let them triumph.

[5] He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—

the eyes of his children will fail.

[6] “He has made me a byword of the peoples,

and I am one before whom men spit.

[7] My eye has grown dim from vexation,

and all my members are like a shadow.

[8] The upright are appalled at this,

and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.

[9] Yet the righteous holds to his way,

and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

[10] But you, come on again, all of you,

and I shall not find a wise man among you.

[11] My days are past; my plans are broken off,

the desires of my heart.

[12] They make night into day:

‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

[13] If I hope for Sheol as my house,

if I make my bed in darkness,

[14] if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’

and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

[15] where then is my hope?

Who will see my hope?

[16] Will it go down to the bars of Sheol?

Shall we descend together into the dust?” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 16

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:00:51 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 16

Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[2] “I have heard many such things;

miserable comforters are you all.

[3] Shall windy words have an end?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

[4] I also could speak as you do,

if you were in my place;

I could join words together against you

and shake my head at you.

[5] I could strengthen you with my mouth,

and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

[6] “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,

and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

[7] Surely now God has worn me out;

he has made desolate all my company.

[8] And he has shriveled me up,

which is a witness against me,

and my leanness has risen up against me;

it testifies to my face.

[9] He has torn me in his wrath and hated me;

he has gnashed his teeth at me;

my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

[10] Men have gaped at me with their mouth;

they have struck me insolently on the cheek;

they mass themselves together against me.

[11] God gives me up to the ungodly

and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

[12] I was at ease, and he broke me apart;

he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;

he set me up as his target;

[13] his archers surround me.

He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare;

he pours out my gall on the ground.

[14] He breaks me with breach upon breach;

he runs upon me like a warrior.

[15] I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin

and have laid my strength in the dust.

[16] My face is red with weeping,

and on my eyelids is deep darkness,

[17] although there is no violence in my hands,

and my prayer is pure.

[18] “O earth, cover not my blood,

and let my cry find no resting place.

[19] Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,

and he who testifies for me is on high.

[20] My friends scorn me;

my eye pours out tears to God,

[21] that he would argue the case of a man with God,

as a son of man does with his neighbor.

[22] For when a few years have come

I shall go the way from which I shall not return. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 15

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:00:36 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 15

Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

[2] “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,

and fill his belly with the east wind?

[3] Should he argue in unprofitable talk,

or in words with which he can do no good?

[4] But you are doing away with the fear of God

and hindering meditation before God.

[5] For your iniquity teaches your mouth,

and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

[6] Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;

your own lips testify against you.

[7] “Are you the first man who was born?

Or were you brought forth before the hills?

[8] Have you listened in the council of God?

And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

[9] What do you know that we do not know?

What do you understand that is not clear to us?

[10] Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,

older than your father.

[11] Are the comforts of God too small for you,

or the word that deals gently with you?

[12] Why does your heart carry you away,

and why do your eyes flash,

[13] that you turn your spirit against God

and bring such words out of your mouth?

[14] What is man, that he can be pure?

Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

[15] Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones,

and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

[16] how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

a man who drinks injustice like water!

[17] “I will show you; hear me,

and what I have seen I will declare

[18] (what wise men have told,

without hiding it from their fathers,

[19] to whom alone the land was given,

and no stranger passed among them).

[20] The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

[21] Dreadful sounds are in his ears;

in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

[22] He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,

and he is marked for the sword.

[23] He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

[24] distress and anguish terrify him;

they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

[25] Because he has stretched out his hand against God

and defies the Almighty,

[26] running stubbornly against him

with a thickly bossed shield;

[27] because he has covered his face with his fat

and gathered fat upon his waist

[28] and has lived in desolate cities,

in houses that none should inhabit,

which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

[29] he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,

nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

[30] he will not depart from darkness;

the flame will dry up his shoots,

and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

[31] Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,

for emptiness will be his payment.

[32] It will be paid in full before his time,

and his branch will not be green.

[33] He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,

and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

[34] For the company of the godless is barren,

and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

[35] They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,

and their womb prepares deceit.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 14

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:00:43 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 14

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

[1] “Man who is born of a woman

is few of days and full of trouble.

[2] He comes out like a flower and withers;

he flees like a shadow and continues not.

[3] And do you open your eyes on such a one

and bring me into judgment with you?

[4] Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

There is not one.

[5] Since his days are determined,

and the number of his months is with you,

and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

[6] look away from him and leave him alone,

that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

[7] “For there is hope for a tree,

if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,

and that its shoots will not cease.

[8] Though its root grow old in the earth,

and its stump die in the soil,

[9] yet at the scent of water it will bud

and put out branches like a young plant.

[10] But a man dies and is laid low;

man breathes his last, and where is he?

[11] As waters fail from a lake

and a river wastes away and dries up,

[12] so a man lies down and rises not again;

till the heavens are no more he will not awake

or be roused out of his sleep.

[13] Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,

that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,

that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

[14] If a man dies, shall he live again?

All the days of my service I would wait,

till my renewal should come.

[15] You would call, and I would answer you;

you would long for the work of your hands.

[16] For then you would number my steps;

you would not keep watch over my sin;

[17] my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,

and you would cover over my iniquity.

[18] “But the mountain falls and crumbles away,

and the rock is removed from its place;

[19] the waters wear away the stones;

the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;

so you destroy the hope of man.

[20] You prevail forever against him, and he passes;

you change his countenance, and send him away.

[21] His sons come to honor, and he does not know it;

they are brought low, and he perceives it not.

[22] He feels only the pain of his own body,

and he mourns only for himself.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 13

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:00:47 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 13

Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God

[1] “Behold, my eye has seen all this,

my ear has heard and understood it.

[2] What you know, I also know;

I am not inferior to you.

[3] But I would speak to the Almighty,

and I desire to argue my case with God.

[4] As for you, you whitewash with lies;

worthless physicians are you all.

[5] Oh that you would keep silent,

and it would be your wisdom!

[6] Hear now my argument

and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

[7] Will you speak falsely for God

and speak deceitfully for him?

[8] Will you show partiality toward him?

Will you plead the case for God?

[9] Will it be well with you when he searches you out?

Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

[10] He will surely rebuke you

if in secret you show partiality.

[11] Will not his majesty terrify you,

and the dread of him fall upon you?

[12] Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

[13] “Let me have silence, and I will speak,

and let come on me what may.

[14] Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

and put my life in my hand?

[15] Though he slay me, I will hope in him;

yet I will argue my ways to his face.

[16] This will be my salvation,

that the godless shall not come before him.

[17] Keep listening to my words,

and let my declaration be in your ears.

[18] Behold, I have prepared my case;

I know that I shall be in the right.

[19] Who is there who will contend with me?

For then I would be silent and die.

[20] Only grant me two things,

then I will not hide myself from your face:

[21] withdraw your hand far from me,

and let not dread of you terrify me.

[22] Then call, and I will answer;

or let me speak, and you reply to me.

[23] How many are my iniquities and my sins?

Make me know my transgression and my sin.

[24] Why do you hide your face

and count me as your enemy?

[25] Will you frighten a driven leaf

and pursue dry chaff?

[26] For you write bitter things against me

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

[27] You put my feet in the stocks

and watch all my paths;

you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

[28] Man wastes away like a rotten thing,

like a garment that is moth-eaten. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 12

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:00:58 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 12

Job Replies: The LORD Has Done This

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[2] “No doubt you are the people,

and wisdom will die with you.

[3] But I have understanding as well as you;

I am not inferior to you.

Who does not know such things as these?

[4] I am a laughingstock to my friends;

I, who called to God and he answered me,

a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

[5] In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;

it is ready for those whose feet slip.

[6] The tents of robbers are at peace,

and those who provoke God are secure,

who bring their god in their hand.

[7] “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;

the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

[8] or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;

and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

[9] Who among all these does not know

that the hand of the LORD has done this?

[10] In his hand is the life of every living thing

and the breath of all mankind.

[11] Does not the ear test words

as the palate tastes food?

[12] Wisdom is with the aged,

and understanding in length of days.

[13] “With God are wisdom and might;

he has counsel and understanding.

[14] If he tears down, none can rebuild;

if he shuts a man in, none can open.

[15] If he withholds the waters, they dry up;

if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

[16] With him are strength and sound wisdom;

the deceived and the deceiver are his.

[17] He leads counselors away stripped,

and judges he makes fools.

[18] He looses the bonds of kings

and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

[19] He leads priests away stripped

and overthrows the mighty.

[20] He deprives of speech those who are trusted

and takes away the discernment of the elders.

[21] He pours contempt on princes

and loosens the belt of the strong.

[22] He uncovers the deeps out of darkness

and brings deep darkness to light.

[23] He makes nations great, and he destroys them;

he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

[24] He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth

and makes them wander in a trackless waste.

[25] They grope in the dark without light,

and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 11

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:00:43 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 11

Zophar Speaks: You Deserve Worse

[1] Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

[2] “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,

and a man full of talk be judged right?

[3] Should your babble silence men,

and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

[4] For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure,

and I am clean in God’s eyes.’

[5] But oh, that God would speak

and open his lips to you,

[6] and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!

For he is manifold in understanding.

Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

[7] “Can you find out the deep things of God?

Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?

[8] It is higher than heaven—what can you do?

Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

[9] Its measure is longer than the earth

and broader than the sea.

[10] If he passes through and imprisons

and summons the court, who can turn him back?

[11] For he knows worthless men;

when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

[12] But a stupid man will get understanding

when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!

[13] “If you prepare your heart,

you will stretch out your hands toward him.

[14] If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,

and let not injustice dwell in your tents.

[15] Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish;

you will be secure and will not fear.

[16] You will forget your misery;

you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

[17] And your life will be brighter than the noonday;

its darkness will be like the morning.

[18] And you will feel secure, because there is hope;

you will look around and take your rest in security.

[19] You will lie down, and none will make you afraid;

many will court your favor.

[20] But the eyes of the wicked will fail;

all way of escape will be lost to them,

and their hope is to breathe their last.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 10

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:01:00 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 10

Job Continues: A Plea to God

[1] “I loathe my life;

I will give free utterance to my complaint;

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

[2] I will say to God, Do not condemn me;

let me know why you contend against me.

[3] Does it seem good to you to oppress,

to despise the work of your hands

and favor the designs of the wicked?

[4] Have you eyes of flesh?

Do you see as man sees?

[5] Are your days as the days of man,

or your years as a man’s years,

[6] that you seek out my iniquity

and search for my sin,

[7] although you know that I am not guilty,

and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

[8] Your hands fashioned and made me,

and now you have destroyed me altogether.

[9] Remember that you have made me like clay;

and will you return me to the dust?

[10] Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

[11] You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and knit me together with bones and sinews.

[12] You have granted me life and steadfast love,

and your care has preserved my spirit.

[13] Yet these things you hid in your heart;

I know that this was your purpose.

[14] If I sin, you watch me

and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

[15] If I am guilty, woe to me!

If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,

for I am filled with disgrace

and look on my affliction.

[16] And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion

and again work wonders against me.

[17] You renew your witnesses against me

and increase your vexation toward me;

you bring fresh troops against me.

[18] “Why did you bring me out from the womb?

Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

[19] and were as though I had not been,

carried from the womb to the grave.

[20] Are not my days few?

Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

[21] before I go—and I shall not return—

to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

[22] the land of gloom like thick darkness,

like deep shadow without any order,

where light is as thick darkness.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 9

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:00:46 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 9

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[2] “Truly I know that it is so:

But how can a man be in the right before God?

[3] If one wished to contend with him,

one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

[4] He is wise in heart and mighty in strength—

who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

[5] he who removes mountains, and they know it not,

when he overturns them in his anger,

[6] who shakes the earth out of its place,

and its pillars tremble;

[7] who commands the sun, and it does not rise;

who seals up the stars;

[8] who alone stretched out the heavens

and trampled the waves of the sea;

[9] who made the Bear and Orion,

the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

[10] who does great things beyond searching out,

and marvelous things beyond number.

[11] Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not;

he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

[12] Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back?

Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

[13] “God will not turn back his anger;

beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

[14] How then can I answer him,

choosing my words with him?

[15] Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him;

I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.

[16] If I summoned him and he answered me,

I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.

[17] For he crushes me with a tempest

and multiplies my wounds without cause;

[18] he will not let me get my breath,

but fills me with bitterness.

[19] If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty!

If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

[20] Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;

though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

[21] I am blameless; I regard not myself;

I loathe my life.

[22] It is all one; therefore I say,

‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

[23] When disaster brings sudden death,

he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

[24] The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;

he covers the faces of its judges—

if it is not he, who then is it

[25] “My days are swifter than a runner;

they flee away; they see no good.

[26] They go by like skiffs of reed,

like an eagle swooping on the prey.

[27] If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,

I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’

[28] I become afraid of all my suffering,

for I know you will not hold me innocent.

[29] I shall be condemned;

why then do I labor in vain?

[30] If I wash myself with snow

and cleanse my hands with lye,

[31] yet you will plunge me into a pit,

and my own clothes will abhor me.

[32] For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,

that we should come to trial together.

[33] There is no arbiter between us,

who might lay his hand on us both.

[34] Let him take his rod away from me,

and let not dread of him terrify me.

[35] Then I would speak without fear of him,

for I am not so in myself. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 8

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:00:43 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 8

Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

[1] Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

[2] “How long will you say these things,

and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

[3] Does God pervert justice?

Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

[4] If your children have sinned against him,

he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.

[5] If you will seek God

and plead with the Almighty for mercy,

[6] if you are pure and upright,

surely then he will rouse himself for you

and restore your rightful habitation.

[7] And though your beginning was small,

your latter days will be very great.

[8] “For inquire, please, of bygone ages,

and consider what the fathers have searched out.

[9] For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,

for our days on earth are a shadow.

[10] Will they not teach you and tell you

and utter words out of their understanding?

[11] “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?

Can reeds flourish where there is no water?

[12] While yet in flower and not cut down,

they wither before any other plant.

[13] Such are the paths of all who forget God;

the hope of the godless shall perish.

[14] His confidence is severed,

and his trust is a spider’s web.

[15] He leans against his house, but it does not stand;

he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.

[16] He is a lush plant before the sun,

and his shoots spread over his garden.

[17] His roots entwine the stone heap;

he looks upon a house of stones.

[18] If he is destroyed from his place,

then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

[19] Behold, this is the joy of his way,

and out of the soil others will spring.

[20] “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man,

nor take the hand of evildoers.

[21] He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,

and your lips with shouting.

[22] Those who hate you will be clothed with shame,

and the tent of the wicked will be no more.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 7

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:00:35 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 7

Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope

[1] “Has not man a hard service on earth,

and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

[2] Like a slave who longs for the shadow,

and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,

[3] so I am allotted months of emptiness,

and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

[4] When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’

But the night is long,

and I toss and turn till the dawn.

[5] My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;

my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

[6] My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle

and come to their end without hope.

[7] “Remember that my life is a breath;

my eye will never again see good.

[8] The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;

while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.

[9] As the cloud fades and vanishes,

so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

[10] he returns no more to his house,

nor does his place know him anymore.

[11] “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

[12] Am I the sea, or a sea monster,

that you set a guard over me?

[13] When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,

my couch will ease my complaint,’

[14] then you scare me with dreams

and terrify me with visions,

[15] so that I would choose strangling

and death rather than my bones.

[16] I loathe my life; I would not live forever.

Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

[17] What is man, that you make so much of him,

and that you set your heart on him,

[18] visit him every morning

and test him every moment?

[19] How long will you not look away from me,

nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

[20] If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?

Why have you made me your mark?

Why have I become a burden to you?

[21] Why do you not pardon my transgression

and take away my iniquity?

For now I shall lie in the earth;

you will seek me, but I shall not be.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 6

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:00:42 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 6

Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

[1] Then Job answered and said:

[2] “Oh that my vexation were weighed,

and all my calamity laid in the balances!

[3] For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;

therefore my words have been rash.

[4] For the arrows of the Almighty are in me;

my spirit drinks their poison;

the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

[5] Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass,

or the ox low over his fodder?

[6] Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,

or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

[7] My appetite refuses to touch them;

they are as food that is loathsome to me.

[8] “Oh that I might have my request,

and that God would fulfill my hope,

[9] that it would please God to crush me,

that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

[10] This would be my comfort;

I would even exult in pain unsparing,

for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

[11] What is my strength, that I should wait?

And what is my end, that I should be patient?

[12] Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?

[13] Have I any help in me,

when resource is driven from me?

[14] “He who withholds kindness from a friend

forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

[15] My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed,

as torrential streams that pass away,

[16] which are dark with ice,

and where the snow hides itself.

[17] When they melt, they disappear;

when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

[18] The caravans turn aside from their course;

they go up into the waste and perish.

[19] The caravans of Tema look,

the travelers of Sheba hope.

[20] They are ashamed because they were confident;

they come there and are disappointed.

[21] For you have now become nothing;

you see my calamity and are afraid.

[22] Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?

Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?

[23] Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’?

Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?

[24] “Teach me, and I will be silent;

make me understand how I have gone astray.

[25] How forceful are upright words!

But what does reproof from you reprove?

[26] Do you think that you can reprove words,

when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

[27] You would even cast lots over the fatherless,

and bargain over your friend.

[28] “But now, be pleased to look at me,

for I will not lie to your face.

[29] Please turn; let no injustice be done.

Turn now; my vindication is at stake.

[30] Is there any injustice on my tongue?

Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity? (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 5

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:01:01 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 5

[1] “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?

To which of the holy ones will you turn?

[2] Surely vexation kills the fool,

and jealousy slays the simple.

[3] I have seen the fool taking root,

but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

[4] His children are far from safety;

they are crushed in the gate,

and there is no one to deliver them.

[5] The hungry eat his harvest,

and he takes it even out of thorns,

and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

[6] For affliction does not come from the dust,

nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

[7] but man is born to trouble

as the sparks fly upward.

[8] “As for me, I would seek God,

and to God would I commit my cause,

[9] who does great things and unsearchable,

marvelous things without number:

[10] he gives rain on the earth

and sends waters on the fields;

[11] he sets on high those who are lowly,

and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

[12] He frustrates the devices of the crafty,

so that their hands achieve no success.

[13] He catches the wise in their own craftiness,

and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

[14] They meet with darkness in the daytime

and grope at noonday as in the night.

[15] But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth

and from the hand of the mighty.

[16] So the poor have hope,

and injustice shuts her mouth.

[17] “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;

therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.

[18] For he wounds, but he binds up;

he shatters, but his hands heal.

[19] He will deliver you from six troubles;

in seven no evil shall touch you.

[20] In famine he will redeem you from death,

and in war from the power of the sword.

[21] You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,

and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

[22] At destruction and famine you shall laugh,

and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

[23] For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,

and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

[24] You shall know that your tent is at peace,

and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.

[25] You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,

and your descendants as the grass of the earth.

[26] You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,

like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

[27] Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.

Hear, and know it for your good.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 4

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:00:45 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 4

Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

[2] “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

[3] Behold, you have instructed many,

and you have strengthened the weak hands.

[4] Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,

and you have made firm the feeble knees.

[5] But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;

it touches you, and you are dismayed.

[6] Is not your fear of God your confidence,

and the integrity of your ways your hope?

[7] “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?

Or where were the upright cut off?

[8] As I have seen, those who plow iniquity

and sow trouble reap the same.

[9] By the breath of God they perish,

and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

[10] The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,

the teeth of the young lions are broken.

[11] The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,

and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

[12] “Now a word was brought to me stealthily;

my ear received the whisper of it.

[13] Amid thoughts from visions of the night,

when deep sleep falls on men,

[14] dread came upon me, and trembling,

which made all my bones shake.

[15] A spirit glided past my face;

the hair of my flesh stood up.

[16] It stood still,

but I could not discern its appearance.

A form was before my eyes;

there was silence, then I heard a voice:

[17] ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God?

Can a man be pure before his Maker?

[18] Even in his servants he puts no trust,

and his angels he charges with error;

[19] how much more those who dwell in houses of clay,

whose foundation is in the dust,

who are crushed like the moth.

[20] Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;

they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

[21] Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,

do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 3

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:00:45 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 3

Job Laments His Birth

[1] After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. [2] And Job said:

[3] “Let the day perish on which I was born,

and the night that said,

‘A man is conceived.’

[4] Let that day be darkness!

May God above not seek it,

nor light shine upon it.

[5] Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.

Let clouds dwell upon it;

let the blackness of the day terrify it.

[6] That night—let thick darkness seize it!

Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;

let it not come into the number of the months.

[7] Behold, let that night be barren;

let no joyful cry enter it.

[8] Let those curse it who curse the day,

who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

[9] Let the stars of its dawn be dark;

let it hope for light, but have none,

nor see the eyelids of the morning,

[10] because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,

nor hide trouble from my eyes.

[11] “Why did I not die at birth,

come out from the womb and expire?

[12] Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

[13] For then I would have lain down and been quiet;

I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,

[14] with kings and counselors of the earth

who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

[15] or with princes who had gold,

who filled their houses with silver.

[16] Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,

as infants who never see the light?

[17] There the wicked cease from troubling,

and there the weary are at rest.

[18] There the prisoners are at ease together;

they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

[19] The small and the great are there,

and the slave is free from his master.

[20] “Why is light given to him who is in misery,

and life to the bitter in soul,

[21] who long for death, but it comes not,

and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

[22] who rejoice exceedingly

and are glad when they find the grave?

[23] Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,

whom God has hedged in?

[24] For my sighing comes instead of my bread,

and my groanings are poured out like water.

[25] For the thing that I fear comes upon me,

and what I dread befalls me.

[26] I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;

I have no rest, but trouble comes.” (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 2

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:00:56 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 2

Satan Attacks Job’s Health

[1] Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. [2] And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” [3] And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.” [4] Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. [5] But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.” [6] And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.”

[7] So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. [8] And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.

[9] Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” [10] But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job’s Three Friends

[11] Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. [12] And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. [13] And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Job 1

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:00:55 GMT

Introduction to Job

JOB 1

Job’s Character and Wealth

[1] There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. [2] There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. [3] He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. [4] His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. [5] And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Satan Allowed to Test Job

[6] Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. [7] The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” [8] And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” [9] Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? [10] Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. [11] But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” [12] And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Satan Takes Job’s Property and Children

[13] Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, [14] and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, [15] and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” [16] While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” [17] While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” [18] While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, [19] and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

[20] Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. [21] And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

[22] In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. (ESV)

Daily Bible Reading | Psalms 136-137

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:53 GMT

Introduction to the Psalms

PSALMS 136-137

His Steadfast Love Endures Forever

[1] Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

[2] Give thanks to the God of gods,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

[3] Give thanks to the Lord of lords,