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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Call if you will, but who will answer you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">To which of the holy ones will you turn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Resentment kills a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">and envy slays the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I myself have seen a fool taking root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">but suddenly his house was cursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His children are far from safety,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">crushed in court without a defender.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The hungry consume his harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">taking it even from among thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">and the thirsty pant after his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For hardship does not spring from the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">nor does trouble sprout from the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet man is born to trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">as surely as sparks fly upward.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I were you, I would appeal to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">I would lay my cause before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He provides rain for the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">he sends water on the countryside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lowly he sets on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">and those who mourn are lifted to safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He thwarts the plans of the crafty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">so that their hands achieve no success.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He catches the wise in their craftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">and the schemes of the wily are swept away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Darkness comes upon them in the daytime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">at noon they grope as in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the poor have hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">and injustice shuts its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the one whom God corrects;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout Job</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he wounds, but he also binds up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">he injures, but his hands also heal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From six calamities he will rescue you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">in seven no harm will touch you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In famine he will deliver you from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">and in battle from the stroke of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">and need not fear when destruction comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You will laugh at destruction and famine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">and need not fear the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">and the wild animals will be at peace with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You will know that your tent is secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will know that your children will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">and your descendants like the grass of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You will come to the grave in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">like sheaves gathered in season.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have examined this, and it is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">So hear it and apply it to yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Anguish Over Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I speak the truth in Christ&#8212;I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!</span></span></span><span class="content"> Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Sovereign Choice</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.9.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It is not as though God&#8217;s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham&#8217;s children. On the contrary, &#8220;It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="GEN.21.12">Gen. 21:12</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God&#8217;s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham&#8217;s offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this was how the promise was stated: &#8220;At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="GEN.18.10">Gen. 18:10</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="GEN.18.14">14</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Not only that, but Rebekah&#8217;s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad&#8212;in order that God&#8217;s purpose in election might stand: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">not by works but by him who calls&#8212;she was told, &#8220;The older will serve the younger.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:12 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="GEN.25.23">Gen. 25:23</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Just as it is written: &#8220;Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="MAL.1.2">Mal. 1:2</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="MAL.1.3">3</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.9.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For he says to Moses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="content">and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:15 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.33.19">Exodus 33:19</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God&#8217;s mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Scripture says to Pharaoh: &#8220;I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:17 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.9.16">Exodus 9:16</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.9.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">One of you will say to me: &#8220;Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? &#8220;Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, &#8216;Why did you make me like this?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.29.16">Isaiah 29:16</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="ISA.45.9">45:9</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath&#8212;prepared for destruction? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As he says in Hosea:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">&#8220;I will call them &#8216;my people&#8217; who are not my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">and I will call her &#8216;my loved one&#8217; who is not my loved one,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:25 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="HOS.2.23">Hosea 2:23</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">&#8220;In the very place where it was said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">&#8216;You are not my people,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">there they will be called &#8216;children of the living God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="HOS.1.10">Hosea 1:10</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">only the remnant will be saved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For the Lord will carry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="content">his sentence on earth with speed and finality.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:28 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.10.22">Isaiah 10:22</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="ISA.10.23">23</span> (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">It is just as Isaiah said previously:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless the Lord Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">had left us descendants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">we would have become like Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">we would have been like Gomorrah.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.1.9">Isaiah 1:9</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:33 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.8.14">Isaiah 8:14</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="ISA.28.16">28:16</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Two-Year Bible Reading Plan: Volume 2Sample

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