A reading from the Book of Job

Job answered Bildad the Shuhite 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.