Daily Lectionary

Job 4:1-21

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
² “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
³ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
⁴ Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
⁵ But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
⁶ Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
⁷ “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
⁸ As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
¹⁰ The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
¹¹ The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
¹² “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
¹³ Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
¹⁴ dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
¹⁵ A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
¹⁷ ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
¹⁸ Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
¹⁹ how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
²⁰ Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
²¹ Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ (ESV)

John 2:1-12

¹ On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
² Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.
³ When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
⁴ And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”
⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
⁶ Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
⁷ Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
⁸ And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.
⁹ When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
¹⁰ and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
¹¹ This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
¹² After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. (ESV)