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Job 41    

41‘Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish-hook,   or press down its tongue with a cord?2 Can you put a rope in its nose,   or pierce its jaw with a hook?3 Will it make many supplications to you?   Will it speak soft words to you?4 Will it make a covenant with you   to be taken as your servant for ever?5 Will you play with it as with a bird,   or will you put it on a leash for your girls?6 Will traders bargain over it?   Will they divide it up among the merchants?7 Can you fill its skin with harpoons,   or its head with fishing-spears?8 Lay hands on it;   think of the battle; you will not do it again!9 Any hope of capturing it will be disappointed;   were not even the gods overwhelmed at the sight of it?10 No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up.   Who can stand before it?11 Who can confront it and be safe?   —under the whole heaven, who?12 ‘I will not keep silence concerning its limbs,   or its mighty strength, or its splendid frame.13 Who can strip off its outer garment?   Who can penetrate its double coat of mail?14 Who can open the doors of its face?   There is terror all around its teeth.15 Its back is made of shields in rows,   shut up closely as with a seal.16 One is so near to another   that no air can come between them.17 They are joined one to another;   they clasp each other and cannot be separated.18 Its sneezes flash forth light,   and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.19 From its mouth go flaming torches;   sparks of fire leap out.20 Out of its nostrils comes smoke,   as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.21 Its breath kindles coals,   and a flame comes out of its mouth.22 In its neck abides strength,   and terror dances before it.23 The folds of its flesh cling together;   it is firmly cast and immovable.24 Its heart is as hard as stone,   as hard as the lower millstone.25 When it raises itself up the gods are afraid;   at the crashing they are beside themselves.26 Though the sword reaches it, it does not avail,   nor does the spear, the dart, or the javelin.27 It counts iron as straw,   and bronze as rotten wood.28 The arrow cannot make it flee;   slingstones, for it, are turned to chaff.29 Clubs are counted as chaff;   it laughs at the rattle of javelins.30 Its underparts are like sharp potsherds;   it spreads itself like a threshing-sledge on the mire.31 It makes the deep boil like a pot;   it makes the sea like a pot of ointment.32 It leaves a shining wake behind it;   one would think the deep to be white-haired.33 On earth it has no equal,   a creature without fear.34 It surveys everything that is lofty;   it is king over all that are proud.’

Romans 16.1–16    

16 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae, 2so that you may welcome her in the Lord as is fitting for the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a benefactor of many and of myself as well.3 Greet Prisca and Aquila, who work with me in Christ Jesus, 4and who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. 5Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert in Asia for Christ. 6Greet Mary, who has worked very hard among you. 7Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives who were in prison with me; they are prominent among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was. 8Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord. 9Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. 10Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus. 11Greet my relative Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus. 12Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord. 13Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; and greet his mother—a mother to me also. 14Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters who are with them. 15Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. 16Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

Psalm 95

1 O come, let us sing to the Lord; ♦︎   let us heartily rejoice in the rock of our salvation.2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving ♦︎   and be glad in him with psalms.3 For the Lord is a great God ♦︎   and a great king above all gods.4 In his hand are the depths of the earth ♦︎   and the heights of the mountains are his also.5 The sea is his, for he made it, ♦︎   and his hands have moulded the dry land.6 Come, let us worship and bow down ♦︎   and kneel before the Lord our Maker.7 For he is our God; ♦︎   we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.8 O that today you would listen to his voice: ♦︎   ‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,      on that day at Massah in the wilderness,9 ‘When your forebears tested me, and put me to the proof, ♦︎   though they had seen my works.10 ‘Forty years long I detested that generation and said, ♦︎   “This people are wayward in their hearts;      they do not know my ways.”11 ‘So I swore in my wrath, ♦︎   “They shall not enter into my rest.” ’