Daily Reading for Wednesday, September 28th, 2016

Reading 1, Job 9:1-12, 14-16

¹ Job spoke next. He said:

² Indeed, I know it is as you say: how could anyone claim to be upright before God?

³ Anyone trying to argue matters with him, could not give him one answer in a thousand.

⁴ Among the wisest and the hardiest, who then can successfully defy him?

⁵ He moves the mountains, though they do not know it; he throws them down when he is angry.

⁶ He shakes the earth, and moves it from its place, making all its pillars tremble.

⁷ The sun, at his command, forbears to rise, and on the stars he sets a seal.

⁸ He and no other has stretched out the heavens and trampled on the back of the Sea.

⁹ He has made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the Mansions of the South.

¹⁰ The works he does are great and unfathomable, and his marvels cannot be counted.

¹¹ If he passes me, I do not see him; he slips by, imperceptible to me.

¹² If he snatches his prey, who is going to stop him or dare to ask, 'What are you doing?'

¹⁴ that I may recount all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion and rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵ The nations have fallen into the trap they made, their feet caught in the snare they laid.

¹⁶ Yahweh has made himself known, given judgement, he has ensnared the wicked in the work of their own hands.Muted music

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 88:10-11, 12-13, 14-15

¹⁰ Do you work wonders for the dead, can shadows rise up to praise you?

¹¹ Do they speak in the grave of your faithful love, of your constancy in the place of perdition?

¹² Are your wonders known in the darkness, your saving justice in the land of oblivion?

¹³ But, for my part, I cry to you, Yahweh, every morning my prayer comes before you;

¹⁴ why, Yahweh, do you rebuff me, turn your face away from me?

¹⁵ Wretched and close to death since childhood, I have borne your terrors -- I am finished!