Daily Reading for Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

Reading 1, Jb 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17

¹ This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh:

² I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.

³ I was the man who misrepresented your intentions with my ignorant words. You have told me about great works that I cannot understand, about marvels which are beyond me, of which I know nothing.

⁵ Before, I knew you only by hearsay but now, having seen you with my own eyes,

⁶ I retract what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes.

¹² Yahweh blessed Job's latter condition even more than his former one. He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she-donkeys.

¹³ He had seven sons and three daughters;

¹⁴ his first daughter he called 'Turtledove', the second 'Cassia' and the third 'Mascara'.

¹⁵ Throughout the land there were no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance rights like their brothers.

¹⁶ After this, Job lived for another one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and his children's children to the fourth generation.

¹⁷ Then, old and full of days, Job died.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 91:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 10-11

¹ You who live in the secret place of Elyon, spend your nights in the shelter of Shaddai,

² saying to Yahweh, 'My refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust!'

³ He rescues you from the snare of the fowler set on destruction;

⁴ he covers you with his pinions, you find shelter under his wings. His constancy is shield and protection.

⁵ You need not fear the terrors of night, the arrow that flies in the daytime,

⁶ the plague that stalks in the darkness, the scourge that wreaks havoc at high noon.

¹⁰ No disaster can overtake you, no plague come near your tent;

¹¹ he has given his angels orders about you to guard you wherever you go.