Daily Reading for Saturday, October 1st, 2022

Reading 1, Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-16

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.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130

⁶⁶ Teach me judgement and knowledge, for I rely on your commandments.

⁷¹ It was good for me that I had to suffer, the better to learn your judgements.

⁷⁵ I know, Yahweh, that your judgements are upright, and in punishing me you show your constancy.

⁹¹ Through your judgements all stands firm to this day, for all creation is your servant.

¹²⁵ Your servant am I; give me understanding and I shall know your instructions.

¹³⁰ As your word unfolds it gives light, and even the simple understand.