There was to the Jews light and gladness and joy and honor.

And in the twelfth month (this the month Adar) in the thirteenth day in it, when the word of the king drew near, and his edict to do in the day that the enemies of the Jews expected to have power over them, (and it was turned that these Jews will have power over those hating them:)

And all the chiefs of the provinces, and the satraps, and the prefects, and those doing the work that was for the king, were lifting up with the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them:

For great was Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame went into all the provinces: for the man Mordecai went and was magnified

As the days which the Jews rested in them from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from grief to gladness, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of drinking and gladness, and sending portions a man to his neighbor, and gifts to the needy.

And the saying of Esther set up these words of Purim; and it was written in the book.

For Mordecai the Jew was second to the king Ahasuerus, and great to the Jews, and acceptable to the multitude of his brethren, seeking good for his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

A man as in the land of Uz, Job his name; and that man was blameless and upright, and fearing God, and departing from evil.

And they sat with him upon, the earth seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word to him: for they saw that grief was great exceedingly.

The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived.

To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him?

For I feared a fear, and it will come upon me, and what I was afraid of will come to me.

I was not secure, and I rested not, and I was not quiet; and trouble will come.

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

For with the stones of the field they covenant, and the beast of the field was at peace with thee.

So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.

If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight

And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.

And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not

And thy beginning was small, and thy latter state shall increase greatly.

It was moist before the sun, and its sprout will come forth upon his garden.

Wise of heart and strong of power: who was hard before him and shall be requited?

Whom, if I was just, I shall not answer; I will make supplication to my judge.

The earth was given into the hand of the unjust one: he will cover the faces of her judges; if not now, who is it?

I was afraid of all my pains, I knew that thou wilt not acquit me.

My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul

If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;

I shall be as I was not; I shall be brought from the womb to the grave.

And thou wilt say, My instruction is pure, and I was clean in thine eyes.

To them alone the earth was given, and a stranger passed not in the midst of them.

He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword.

He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand.

Before his day it shall be completed, and his branch was not green.

Was there an end to words of wind? or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer?

I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark:

The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him.

For he was cast into a net by his feet, and he will go about upon latticework.

They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.

My spirit was loathsome to my wife, and I entreated to the sons of my belly.

For ye shall say, Why shall we pursue after him and the root of the word was found in me?

Thou knewest this from everlasting when man was set upon the earth:

His bread in his bowels was turned, the gall of asps in his midst

Nothing was left to his food; for this his good shall not be stable.

Their seed was established before their face with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Behold, their good not in the hand: the counsel of the unjust was far from me.

And he filled their houses with good: and the counsel of the unjust was far from me.

And the Almighty was thy gold and silver of labors to thee.

He will deliver the island of the innocent: and it was delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

For I was not cut off from the face of darkness, and he covered misfortune from my face.

He bound up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud was not rent under them.

Behold these the ends of his ways; how transient a sound of the word was heard in him! and the thunder of his might who shall understand?

The earth, from it will come forth bread, and under it was turned as fire.

As I was in the days of my ripeness, in the intercourse of God upon my tent;

The voice the leaders hid, and their tongue was joined to their palate.

Eyes was I to the blind one, and feet to the lame was I.

I was a father to the needy, and the contention I knew not I shall search it out

And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word.

If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy.

I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.

My skin was black from above me, and my bones burnt from heat

If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;

And the anger of Elihu will kindle, son of Barachel the Buzite, from the family of Ram: against Job was, his anger kindled, for his justifying his soul above God.

And against his three friends was his anger kindled, because they, found not an answer, and they will condemn Job.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge.

For I was filled with words, the spirit of my belly pressed upon me.

Behold, I am according to thy mouth for God: from clay was I also broken off

And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually.

He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me;

For Job said, I was just: and God removed my judgment

Shall I speak falsehood against my judgment? mine arrow was desperate without transgression.

For he said to God, I was lifted up, I will pervert no more.

Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out

Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth.

Behold, his hope was false: shall he not be cast down at his sight?

The bludgeon was reckoned to him for stubble: and he will laugh at the shaking of the javelin.

And it will be after Jehovah spake these words to Job, and Jehovah will say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger was kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye spake not the right before me as my servant Job.

And Jehovah turned back the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends: and Jehovah added all which was to Job, to the double.

And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.

The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it

And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.

And it will be moved and the earth will tremble, and the foundations of the mountains will be moved and they will shake, for it was kindled to him.

Teaching my hands to war, and a bow of brass was bent by mine arms.

Also withhold thy servant from arrogant things; they shall not rule over me: then shall I be blameless, and I was acquitted from much transgression.

Upon thee was I cast from the womb: from my mother's belly thou my God.

I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.

For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, and thou forgavest to mine iniquity; for it was much.

I will wash my hands in cleanness, and I will surround thine altar, O Jehovah:

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit

Jehovah my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusted, and I was helped: and my heart will exult, and from my song will I praise him.

O Jehovah, in thy good will thou didst cause strength to stand for my mountain: thou didst cover thy face, I was in trepidation.

For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.

From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me.

I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.

And I said in my hasty flight; I was cut off from before thine eyes: yet thou heardest the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.