Reading 1 - Job 10:1 Job speaks out of his sufferings: "I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak...

Reading 1 - Job 9:22 "It is all the same; that is why I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked' " (Job 9:22). "God knows...

Reading 1 - Job 8 Bildad (who speaks in Job 8; 18; 25) rests his philosophy on tradition (Job 8:8-10; 18:5-20). Like Eliphaz, Bildad has...

Reading 1 - Job 6:21 "Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid" (Job 6:21). "Why is it that...

Reading 1 - Job 5 "It must have been one of the sorest trials that Job had to suffer, when his closest friends condemned him for...

Reading 1 - Job 4 Eliphaz (who speaks in Job 4; 5; 15; 23) rests his philosophy on general observation and special revelation (Job 4:8;...

Reading 1 - Job's "satan" Job's "satan": an angel of evil? Job's "satan" comes into the presence of God, and is in conversation with Him,...

Reading 1 - Est 9:10 And so, when the day came, the Jews rose up against their enemies, and slaughtered them before they had a chance to...

Reading 1 - Est 8:5,8 " 'If it pleases the king,' [Esther] said, 'and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do,...

Reading 1 - Est 5:14 "His [Haman's] wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, 'Have a gallows built, seventy-five feet high, and ask...

Reading 1 - Est 4:12-14 "When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: 'Do not think that because you are in...

Reading 1 - Est 2:7-9 "Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl,...

Reading 1 - Est 1 "It is indeed a derisive eye that our narrator has cast upon the royal court he describes: A king who rules the whole...

Reading 1 - Neh 13 Notice the similarities between the prophecy of Malachi and Neh 13. Malachi was the "messenger of the covenant" (Mal...

Reading 1 - Neh 12:27-43 "At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought...

Reading 1 - Neh 11:1,2 "Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of...

Reading 1 - Neh 10 After Ezra's prayer on behalf of the nation, in Neh 9, the people were prepared to seal the covenant with Yahweh, and...

Reading 1 - Neh 9:8 "You found his heart faithful to you" (Neh 9:8). Examples of faithfulness in service: Samuel (1Sa 3:20); David (1Sa...

Reading 1 - Neh 8:10 "The joy of the LORD is your strength" (Neh 8:10). "Perhaps what we should pray for most is to be taught how to...

Reading 1 - Neh 7 "Nehemiah not only directed the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem; he also set out to rebuild the nation and to...