Friday in Season after Pentecost

FIRST READING

Job 38:12-21

Verse 12. In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, Verse 13. that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it? Verse 14. The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment. Verse 15. Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken. Verse 16. Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep? Verse 17. Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Verse 18. Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this. Verse 19. Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides, Verse 20. so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home? Verse 21. Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

PSALM

Psalm 8

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place —

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

SECOND READING

2 Timothy 1:12b-14

Verse 12. For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day. Verse 13. Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Verse 14. Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.