And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to thee.

All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except th

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I also and my maidens will fast in like manner. And so I will go in to the king, which is not acc

Then the king said to her, What will thou, queen Esther? And what is thy request? It shall be given thee even to the half of the kingdom.

Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste that it may be done as Esther has said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? And it shall be granted thee. And what is thy request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

Then Esther answered, and said, My petition and my request is,

if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king

Yet all this avails me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

And the king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants who ministered to him said, There is nothing done for him.

And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman came into the outward court of the king's house to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

let royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides upon, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that thou have spoken.

And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai, before whom thou have begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shal

And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? And it shall be granted thee. And what is thy request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

Then king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, who dares presume in his heart to do so?

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. Then the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word we

Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring, for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [namely], upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, 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 have rule over them

the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt. And no man could withstand them, for the fear of them fell upon all the peoples.

And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is thy petition? And

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

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and 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.

the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing of it, and according to the appoin

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.

Have thou not made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has, on every side? Thou have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.

And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m

And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.

But he said to her, Thou speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master.

Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?

His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

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

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

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.

Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.

What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?

To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,

which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,

If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb.

whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.

He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?

If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

If of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?

It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?

They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?

Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,

although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.

And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

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

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

For thou say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.