Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor

1And Job, responding, said: 2Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God. 3If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times. 4He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace? 5He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it. 6He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble. 7He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal. 8He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea. 9He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south. 10He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered. 11If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand. 12If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?”

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14what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him? 15And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge. 16And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.

10My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you.

11Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?

12Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition?

13Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion?

14And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.

15Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?

57And it happened that, as they were walking along the way, someone said to him, “I will follow you, wherever you will go.” 58Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” 59Then he said to another, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” 60And Jesus said to him: “Let the dead bury their dead. But you go and announce the kingdom of God.” 61And another said: “I will follow you, Lord. But permit me first to explain this to those of my house.” 62Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”