For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss."

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

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

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Therefore they called these days "Purim," from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually.

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,

I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.