First Reading: Job 5:8-18.
Elephaz speaks for the first time, not only suggesting that Job take his cause to God, but that the LORD will make things right, and that "happy is the man whom God correcteth..."
2nd Reading: Matthew 12:31-50.
All manner of sin shall be forgiven, save "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost." The evil speak and do evil out of the heart, the good speak and do good things out of the heart. Words both justify and condemn. As there was hope for the Ninevites when Jonah visited them, so, too, is repentance available via the Word of God.
