Bible in a Year.

On the sixth day of our reading plan, you will encounter three striking passages. In Genesis 12-13, we witness Abram's transformative call and his journey of faith toward the promised land. Job 1-2 introduces us to a man of integrity facing unimaginable trials, raising profound questions about suffering and faith. Finally, Proverbs 1:1-7 lays the foundation for biblical wisdom, reminding us that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."

Chapter 12

1. And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of they father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

3. I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed:

4. So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

5. And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

6. Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8. And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

9. And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

10. And there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

11. And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

12. And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.

13. Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

14. And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

15. And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

16. And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he asses, and menservants and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

17. But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.

18. And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife.

19. For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

20. And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Chapter 13

1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

2. And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

3. And he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai:

4. In the place of the altar which he had made before; and there he called upon the name of the Lord.

5. But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.

6. Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.

7. Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.

8. Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

9. Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.

10. And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

11. And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

12. Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot abode in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.

13. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord, beyond measure.

14. And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.

15. All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

17. Arise and walk through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

18. So Abram removing his tent came and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

Chapter 1

1. There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

2. And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3. And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceeding great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

4. And his sons went, and made a feast by houses every one in his day. And sending they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

5. And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

6. Now on a certain day when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them.

7. And the Lord said to him: Whence comest thou ? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

8. And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil?

9. And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain ?

10. Hast not thou made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth ?

11. But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he blesseth thee not to thy face.

12. Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

13. Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

14. There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,

15. And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

16. And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

17. And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them, moreover they have slain the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

18. He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their elder brother:

19. A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to fell thee.

20. Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head fell down upon the ground and worshipped,

21. And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

22. In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

Chapter 2

1. And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came, and stood before the Lord, and Satan came among them, and stood in his sight,

2. That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou ? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through it.

3. And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing Cod, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence ? But thou hast moved me against him, that I sho uld afflict him without cause.

4. And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life:

5. gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.

6. And the Lord said to Satan: Behold be is in thy hand, but yet save his life.

7. So Satan went forth from the presence Of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

8. And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

9. And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

10. And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

11. Now when Job's three friends heard all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, a nd comfort him.

12. And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and rending their garments they sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.

13. And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

2. To know wisdom, and instruction:

3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

5. A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.

6. He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.