Readings for the Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church Reading 1 Job 9:1-12, 14-16 Job answered his friends and said:I know well that it is so;but how can a man be justified before God?Should one wish to contend with him,he could not answer him once in a thousand times.God is wise in heart and mighty in strength;who has withstood him and remained unscathed?He removes the mountains before they know it;he overturns them in his anger.He shakes the earth out of its place,and the pillars beneath it tremble.He commands the sun, and it rises not;he seals up the stars.He alone stretches out the heavensand treads upon the crests of the sea.He made the Bear and Orion,the Pleiades and the constellations of the south;He does great things past finding out,marvelous things beyond reckoning.Should he come near me, I see him not;should he pass by, I am not aware of him;Should he seize me forcibly, who can say him nay?Who can say to him, "What are you doing?&