[DailyReading] Faith in adversity

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Lesson: Great Faith
Reading: Faith in adversity  2015-01-08
Reference: Job 19:14-29 
Job 19:14: My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15: They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16: I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:17: My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
Job 19:18: Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Job 19:19: All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:20: My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21: Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 19:22: Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23: Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job 19:24: That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Job 19:25: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job 19:26: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Job 19:27: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Job 19:28: But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job 19:29: Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
(KJV)





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