While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and caused Haman to make haste to come unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And when the king and Haman came to banquet that queen Esther had prepared,

the king said unto Esther on the second day, when he had drunken wine, "What is thy petition queen Esther, that it may be given thee? And what requirest thou? Yea, ask even half of the empire, and it shall be done."

And when the king came again out of the palace garden into the parlor where they had eaten, Haman had laid him upon the bed that Esther sat upon. Then said the king, "Will he force the queen also? Beside me, in the house?" As soon as that word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

And Harbona, one of the chamberlains that stood before the king, said, "Behold, there standeth a gallows in Haman's house fifty cubits high, which he had made for Mordecai, that spake good for the king." The king said, "Hang him thereon."

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

And the king put off his finger ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

And Esther spake yet more before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him, that he would put away the wickedness of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had imagined against the Jews.

In the twelfth month, that is the month Adar, upon the thirteenth day, which the king's word and commandment had appointed, that it should be done, even upon the same day that the enemies should have destroyed the Jews to have oppressed them, it turned contrary wise, even that the Jews should subdue their enemies.

And the Jews received it that they had begun to do, and that Mordecai wrote unto them:

how that Haman, the son of Hammedatha all the Jews' enemy, had devised to destroy all the Jews, and caused to cast Pur, that is lot, for to put them in fear, and to bring them to naught:

and how Esther went and spake to the king, that through letters his wicked device - which he imagined against the Jews - might be turned upon his own head, and how he and his sons were hanged on the tree.

For the which cause they called this day Purim after the name of Pur, according to all the words of this writing: and what they themselves had seen, and what had happened unto them.

to confirm these days of Purim, in their time appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had ordained concerning them: like as they upon their soul and upon their seed had confirmed the acts of the fasting and of her complaint.

This man had seven sons, and three daughters.

And it fortuned that when they had passed over the time of their banqueting round about; Job sent for them, and sanctified them, and gat up early, and offered for every one a burnt offering. For Job thought thus: "Peradventure my sons have done some offense, and have been unthankful to God in their hearts." And thus did Job everyday.

Then Job stood up, and rent his clothes, shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.

Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry; that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.

but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

Lo, this we ourselves have proved by experience, and even this it is. Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heed to thyself."

They that hate thee, shall be confounded, and the dwellings of the ungodly shall come to naught."

If I had called upon him, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had heard my voice!

Thou hast granted me life, and done me good: and the diligent heed that thou tookest upon me hath preserved my spirit.

If I have done wickedly, woe is me therefore. If I have done righteously, yet dare I not lift up my head; so full am I of confusion, and see mine own misery.

Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

that he might show thee out of his secret wisdom how manifold his law is! Then shouldest thou know that God had forgotten thee, because of thy sins.

"Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light!

Nevertheless, grant me two things, and then will I not hide myself from thee.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:

I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

For lo, my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth me, is above in the height.

He hath spoiled me of mine honour, and taken the crown away from my head.

Though he be magnified up to the heaven, so that his head reacheth into the clouds:

When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue.

Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

Another dieth in sorrow and heaviness, and never had good days.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

Out of drops bringeth he great floods together, and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

She is hid from the eyes of all men; yea, and from the fouls of the air.

When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.

When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;

If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.

And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.

for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.

They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.

Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?

My skin upon me is turned to black, and my bones are burnt with heat;

Did I ever think scorn to do right unto my servants and maidens, when they had any matter against me?

Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?

Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation?

"Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did?

For if I had feared any great multitude of people, or if I had been despised of the simple; Oh then should I have been afraid. Thus have I quietly spent my life, and not gone out at the door.

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

Then shall I take it upon my shoulder, and as a garland about my head.

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

Now tarried Elihu till they had ended their communication with Job: for why? They were elder than he.

For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication;

Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words,

There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?

If they now will take heed and be obedient, they shall wear out their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure and joy.

By what way is the light parted, and the heat dealt out upon the earth?

the fens hide him with their shadow, and the willows of the brook cover him round about.

Canst thou fill the net with his skin, or the fish panner with his head?

out of his nostrils there goeth smoke, like as out of a hot seething pot.

"I know that thou hast power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto thee.

Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore.

And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold.

And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

He had children also, seven sons and three daughters.

But thou, O LORD, art my defender; thou art my worship, and the lifter up of my head.

For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Keep me as the apple of an eye; hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, and from them which hate me; for they are too mighty for me. {TYNDALE: He delivered me from my mighty enemy, and from them that hated me and were too strong for me.}

They prevented me in the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my upholder. {TYNDALE: When they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the LORD stayed me up.}

He brought me forth also into a place of liberty: he brought me forth, even because he had a favor unto me. {TYNDALE: And he brought me out into roomth, and delivered me, because he delighted in me.}

For I have an eye unto all his laws, and will not cast out his commandments from me. {TYNDALE: But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.}

Therefore shall the LORD reward me after my righteous dealing, and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. {TYNDALE: And the LORD did to me again, according to my righteousness, and after my pureness that I had in his sight.}

I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. {TYNDALE: I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.}

Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}

Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.}

It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him.