Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Job 3:1-3.11-17.20-23.

Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
Job spoke out and said:
Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, "The child is a boy!"
Why did I not perish at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?
Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?
For then I should have lain down and been tranquil; had I slept, I should then have been at rest
With kings and counselors of the earth who built where now there are ruins
Or with princes who had gold and filled their houses with silver.
Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?
There the wicked cease from troubling, there the weary are at rest.
Why is light given to the toilers, and life to the bitter in spirit?
They wait for death and it comes not; they search for it rather than for hidden treasures,
Rejoice in it exultingly, and are glad when they reach the grave:
Men whose path is hidden from them, and whom God has hemmed in!

Psalms 88(87):2-3.4-5.6.7-8.
LORD, my God, by day I cry out;
at night I clamour in your presence.
Let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry.

For my soul is filled with troubles;
my life draws near to Sheol.
I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit;
I am weak, without strength.

My couch is among the dead,
with the slain who lie in the grave.
Whom you remember no longer
and who are cut off from your care.

You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into the darkness of the abyss.
Upon me your wrath lies heavy,
and with all your billows you overwhelm me.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 9:51-56.
When the days for Jesus to be taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem,
and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there,
but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem.
When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?"
Jesus turned and rebuked them,
and they journeyed to another village.