Proper 7 (12)

4Verse 4. Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height, 5Verse 5. and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels, 6Verse 6. and he had armor of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 7Verse 7. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him. 8Verse 8. And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me. 9Verse 9. If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and work for us.” 10Verse 10. Then the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day! Give me a man to fight!” 11Verse 11. On hearing the words of the Philistine, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and greatly afraid. 32Verse 32. And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!” 33Verse 33. But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” 34Verse 34. David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock, 35Verse 35. I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it. 36Verse 36. Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37Verse 37. David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.” 38Verse 38. Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor. 39Verse 39. David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off. 40Verse 40. And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine. 41Verse 41. Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him. 42Verse 42. When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome. 43Verse 43. “Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44Verse 44. “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” 45Verse 45. But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46Verse 46. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47Verse 47. And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give all of you into our hands.” 48Verse 48. As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49Verse 49. Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

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1Verse 1. Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 2Verse 2. “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge? 3Verse 3. Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me. 4Verse 4. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. 5Verse 5. Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it? 6Verse 6. On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone, 7Verse 7. while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8Verse 8. Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, 9Verse 9. when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, 10Verse 10. when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, 11Verse 11. and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?