"All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days."

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, next to the king's house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."

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."

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.

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they didn't lay their hand on the plunder.

The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.

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.

But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

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.

But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."

"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

"Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

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

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

"For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.