Old Testament (NKJV)

The Book of Job Chapter 21:1-34

Then Job answered and said:

"Listen carefully to my speech,
And let this be your consolation.

Bear with me that I may speak,
And after I have spoken, keep mocking.

"As for me, is my complaint against man?
And if it were, why should I not be impatient?

Look at me and be astonished;
Put your hand over your mouth.

Even when I remember I am terrified,
And trembling takes hold of my flesh.

Why do the wicked live and become old,
Yes, become mighty in power?

Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes.

Their houses are safe from fear,
Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Their bull breeds without failure;
Their cow calves without miscarriage.

They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children dance.

They sing to the tambourine and harp,
And rejoice to the sound of the flute.

They spend their days in wealth,
And in a moment go down to the grave.

Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?'

Indeed their prosperity is not in their hand;
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does their destruction come upon them,
The sorrows God distributes in His anger?

They are like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that a storm carries away.

They say, 'God lays up one's iniquity for his children';
Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.

Let his eyes see his destruction,
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what does he care about his household after him,
When the number of his months is cut in half?

"Can anyone teach God knowledge,
Since He judges those on high?

One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and secure;

His pails are full of milk,
And the marrow of his bones is moist.

Another man dies in the bitterness of his soul,
Never having eaten with pleasure.

They lie down alike in the dust,
And worms cover them.

"Look, I know your thoughts,
And the schemes with which you would wrong me.

For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince?
And where is the tent,
The dwelling place of the wicked?'

Have you not asked those who travel the road?
And do you not know their signs?

For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom;
They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

Who condemns his way to his face?
And who repays him for what he has done?

Yet he shall be brought to the grave,
And a vigil kept over the tomb.

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him;
Everyone shall follow him,
As countless have gone before him.

How then can you comfort me with empty words,
Since falsehood remains in your answers?"

New Testament (NKJV)

The Gospel According to John Chapter 4:27-39-43-46-54

And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with her?" The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" Then they went out of the city and came to Him. In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors."

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did." So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. And many more believed because of His own word. Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe." The nobleman said to Him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!" Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your son lives." So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, "Your son lives!" Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." And he himself believed, and his whole household. This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.