Have remembrance, O my God, of Tobiah and of Sanballat, according to these their doings, - moreover also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets, who would have put me in fear.

But, thou, art righteous, as to all that hath fallen upon us, - for, faithfulness, hast thou wrought, whereas, we, have been lawless;

and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law, - nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, - and do not wipe out my lovingkindnesses, which I have done for the house of my God, and for those keeping charge thereof.

And I gave word to the Levites, that they should be purifying themselves and coming in, as keepers of the gates, to hallow the sabbath day. This also, remember to me, O my God, and have pity upon me, according to the abundance of thy lovingkindness.

And, this day, shall the ladies of Persia and Media, who have heard the report of the queen, tell it, unto all the lords of the king, - with enough of contempt and wrath.

All the servants of the king, and the people of the provinces of the king, do know, that, whatsoever man or woman shall go in unto the king - into the inter court - who hath not been called, one, is his law, to put him to death, saving any to whom the king may hold out the golden sceptre, who then shall live, - but, I, have not been called to go in unto the king, these thirty days.

Go! gather ye together all the Jews who are to be found in Shusan, and fast ye for me - and neither eat nor drink - three days, night nor day, and, I and my maidens, will fast so, - and, in this manner, will I go in unto the king, though it is not according to the law, and, when I have perished, I have perished!

Then said Esther, If, unto the king, it seem good, let the king with Haman come in this day, unto the banquet which I have prepared for him.

If I have found favour in the eyes of the king, and if, unto the king, it seem good, to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king with Haman come in unto the banquet which I will prepare for them, and, to-morrow, I will do according to the word of the king.

Then answered Esther the queen, and said, If I have found favour in thine eyes, O king, and if, unto the king, it seem good, let my life be granted me, as my petition, and my people, as my request;

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be caused to perish. If indeed, for bondmen and for bondwomen, we had been sold, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have made good the damage to the king.

and said - If, unto the king, it seem good, and if I have found favour before him, and the thing be approved before the king, and, I myself, be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written, to reverse the letters plotted by Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy thee Jews, who are in all the provinces of the king.

Then said King Ahasuerus unto Esther the queen, and unto Mordecai the Jew, - Lo! the house of Haman, have I given unto Esther, and, him, have they hanged upon the gallows, because he thrust forth his hand against the Jews.

And, in the twelfth month, the same, is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the word of the king and his edict arrived to be put in execution, - on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, though it, was changed, so that the Jews themselves should have power over them who hated them,

Then said the king unto Esther the queen, In Shusan the palace, have the Jews slain and caused to perish five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman, - in the rest of the provinces of the king, what have they done? What, then, is thy petition, that it may be granted thee? and what is thy request further, that it may he performed?

And so it was, when the days of the banquet came round, that Job sent and hallowed them, and rising early in the morning offered ascending-sacrifices according to the number of them all; for Job said, Peradventure my sons have sinned, and have cursed God in their hearts. Thus and thus, was Job wont to do all the days.

Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:

Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.

Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.

So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:

How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:

I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

Lo! as for this, we have searched it out - so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.

For, now, beyond the sand of the seas, would it be heavy, On this account, my words, have wandered.

The despairing, from his friend, should have lovingkindness, or, the reverence of the Almighty, he may forsake.

Mine own brethren, have proved treacherous like a torrent, like a channel of torrents which disappear:

By the time they begin to thaw, they are dried up, as soon as it is warm, they have vanished out of their place.

They are ashamed that they had trusted, They have come up to one of them, and are confounded.

For, now, ye have come to him, ye see something fearful, and fear.

Show me, and, I, will hold my peace, And, wherein I have erred, cause me to understand.

So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.

I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, or have I become, unto thee, a burden?

If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him saying - I have not seen thee.

As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves - the proud helpers.

One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.

My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.

They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture which rusheth upon food.

If I have sinned, then couldst thou watch me, and, from mine iniquity, thou wouldst not acquit me:

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

As though I had not been, should I have become, - from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

But, the eyes of the lawless, shall fail, - and, place of refuge, shall have vanished from them, and, their hope, be a breathing out of life.

I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

Lo! I pray you, I have set forth in order a plea, I know that, I, shall be found right.

Waters, have failed from, the sea, and, a river, may waste and dry up;

Stones, have been hollowed out by waters, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth, and, the hope of mortal man, thou hast destroyed:

I will tell thee - hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.

I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!

They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks.

If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.

Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.

And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error.

Together, enter his troops and have cast up, against me, their mound, and have encamped all around my tent;

Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;

Ye guests of my house and my maidens, A stranger, have ye accounted me, An alien, have I become in their eyes;

All the men of mine intimate circle abhor me, and, these whom I loved, have turned against me;

Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.

Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, shall have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!

Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?

And thou shalt decree a purpose, and it shall be fulfilled unto thee, and, upon thy ways, shall have shone a light;

Of his steps, my foot taketh hold, His way, have I kept, and not swerved;

The command of his lips, and would not go back, and, in my bosom, have I treasured the words of his lips.

Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?

Ill-clad, they are left to lodge without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

They, have become rebels against the light, - they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.

Drought and heat, steal away snow water, Hades, them who have sinned.

On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.

Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?

Ravenous beasts have not made a track thereof, neither hath the lion marched thereon:

Destruction and death, have said, With our ears, have we heard the report thereof!

But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused - to set with the dogs of my flock.

But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;

They abhor me - have put themselves far from me, and, from my face, have not withheld - spittle!

He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,

Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,

Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.

What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh - we cannot get filled,

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. GOD, must put him to flight, not man.

Lo! I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue, with my palate, hath spoken,

Mine utterances come straight from mine own heart, and, what I know, my lips have truly spoken;

Lo! I am like thyself toward GOD, From clay, have I been nipped off, even I!

Pure am, I, without transgression, - Clean am, I, and have no iniquity;

Then hath he shewed him favour, and said, Set him free from going down to the pit, I have found a price of redemption!

He hath ransomed my soul from passing away into the pit, - and, my life, in the light, shall have vision.

For, unto GOD, hath one ever said - I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;

What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?

He will not withdraw - from a righteous one - his eyes, - but, with kings on the throne, He hath seated men triumphantly, and they have been exalted.

But, if, bound in fetters, they have been captured with cords of affliction,