Job 19:1, 23-27
A reading from the book of Job
Then Job answered and said: Oh, would that my words were written down! Would
that they were inscribed in a record: that with an iron chisel and with lead they
were cut in the rock forever! But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives, and
that he will at last stand forth upon the dust; whom I myself shall see: my own
eyes, not another's, shall behold him, and from my flesh I shall see God; my
inmost being is consumed with longing.
The Word of the Lord
Old Testament Reading #1