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Lunedi, 29 aprile 2024 - Santa Caterina da Siena ( Letture di oggi)

Job 25


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NEW JERUSALEMKING JAMES BIBLE
1 Bildad of Shuah spoke next. He said:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 What sovereignty, what awe, is his who creates peace on his heights!2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3 Who can count his armies? Against whom does his lightning not surge forth?3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4 Could anyone think God regards him as virtuous, the child of woman as pure!4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5 Why, the very moon lacks lustre, the very stars seem impure to him! The Shadows tremble underneaththe earth, the waters and their denizens are afraid.5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6 How much less a human, this maggot, the child of man, this worm! Before his eyes, Sheol is bare,Perdition itself is uncovered.6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
7 He it was who spread the North above the void and poised the earth on nothingness.
8 He fastens up the waters in his clouds, without the clouds giving way under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his cloud across it.
10 He has traced a ring on the surface of the waters, at the boundary between light and dark.
11 The pil ars of the heavens tremble, awe-struck at his threats.
12 By his power, he has whipped up the Sea, by his skil , he has crushed Rahab.
13 His breath has made the heavens luminous, his hand transfixed the Fleeing Serpent.
14 This is only a fraction of what he has done and al we catch of it is the feeblest echo. But who canconceive the thunder of his power?