Then were the king's scribes called at the same time in the third month, that is the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day. And it was written, as Mordecai commanded, unto the Jews and to the princes, to the deputies and captains in the lands from India until Ethiopia, namely a hundred and seven and twenty lands, unto every one according to the writing thereof, unto every people after their speech, and to the Jews according to their writing and language.

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with a sore slaughter, and slew and destroyed, and did after their will unto such as were their adversaries.

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.

After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day,

for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

I have sufficiently heard thy checking and reproof; therefore am I purposed to make answer after mine understanding.

For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

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

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

"If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door:

Reckonest thou the months after they engender, that thou knowest the time of their bearing?

Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?

He maketh the path to be seen after him, and the deep is his walking place.

Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God.

But they that run after another god shall have great trouble. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names within my lips.

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

The LORD shall reward me after my righteous dealing; according to the cleanness of my hands shall he recompense me, {TYNDALE: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, and according to the pureness of my hands he dealt with me.}

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.}

The poor shall eat, and be satisfied: they that seek after the LORD shall praise him. Your heart shall live for ever.

Reward them according to their deeds and wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the works of their hands; pay them that they have deserved.

Let them be confounded, and put to shame, that seek after my soul; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me.

Suffer yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone; thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be away.

They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward, and put to rebuke, that wish me evil.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that it may be told them that come after.

And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, or seek after God.

For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.

{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.

The singers go before, the minstrels follow after; in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels.

O consider this and be glad, ye that be in adversity: seek after God and your soul shall live.

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul; let them be turned backward, and put to confusion that wish me evil.

When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God.

O God, the proud are risen against me; and the congregation of the mighty seeketh after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes.

Comfort us again, now after the time that thou hast plagued us, and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

Arise, thou judge of the world, and reward the proud after their deserving.

This shall be written for those that come after, that the people which shall be born may praise the LORD.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickedness.

The lions, roaring after their prey, do seek their meat from God.

that he might inform his princes after his will, and teach his senators wisdom.

The LORD sware, and will not repent, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

{Beth} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Even by ruling himself after thy word.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

O quicken me after thy loving-kindness; and so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

LORD, I look for thy saving health, and do after thy commandments.

For if thou criest after wisdom, and callest for knowledge;

If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

He that laboureth for honesty findeth his desire; but whoso seeketh after mischief, it shall happen unto him.

The desire of the ungodly hunteth after mischief; but the root of the righteous bringeth forth fruit.

Every man shall enjoy good according to the innocency of his mouth; and after the works of his hands shall he be rewarded.

A wise heart will seek after knowledge; but the mouths of fools meddle with foolishness.

Pride goeth before destruction; and after a proud stomach there followeth a fall.

He that loveth strife, delighteth in sin; and whoso setteth his door too high, seeketh after a fall.

After pride cometh destruction; and honour after lowliness.

O give ear unto good counsel, and be content to be reformed; that thou mayest be wise here after.

Give not the fool an answer after his foolishness, lest thou become like unto him;

Wicked men discern not the thing that is right, but they that seek after the LORD, discuss all things.

After pride cometh a fall; but a lowly spirit bringeth great worship.

The thing that is past, is out of remembrance; Even so the things that are for to come, shall no more be thought upon among them that come after.

Yea, I was weary of all my labour, which I had taken under the Sun, because I should be fain to leave them unto another man, that cometh after me.

Wherefore I perceive, that there is nothing better for a man, than to be joyful in his labour, for that is his portion. But who will bring him to see the thing that shall come after him?

As for the people that have been before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their joy the greater through him. This is also a vain thing and a vexation of mind. (v17) When thou comest into the house of God, keep thy foot and draw nigh, that thou mayest hear: that is better than the offerings of fools, for they know not what evil they do

All the labour that man taketh is for himself, and yet his desire is never filled after his mind.

For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

A fool is so full of words, that a man cannot tell what end he shall make. Who will then warn him of it that shall follow after him?

Send thy victuals over the waters, and so shalt thou find them after many years.

before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain;

Draw thou me unto thee; we will run after thee. The king hath brought me into his privy chamber: We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we think more of thy love than of wine. They that be righteous love thee.

If thou know not thyself, O thou fairest among women, then go thy way forth after the footsteps of the sheep, and feed thy goats beside the shepherds' tents.

But woe be unto the ungodly and unrighteous, for they shall be rewarded after their works.

After that time shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and mighty, and the fruit of the earth shall be fair and pleasant for those Israelites that shall spring thereof.

But the LORD of Hosts, that holy God: shall be exalted and untouched, when he shall declare his equity and righteousness after this manner.

After this I heard the voice of the LORD, taking advisement on this manner, "Whom shall I send, and who will be our messenger?" Then I said, "Here am I, send me."

For the head city of the Syrians is Damascus, but the head of Damascus is Rezin. And after five and threescore years, shall Ephraim be no more a people.

After that went I unto the Prophetess, that now had conceived and born a son. Then said the LORD to me, "Give him this name: Mahershalahashbaz.

If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.

that the Syrians shall lay hold upon them before, and the Philistines behind, and so devour Israel with open mouth. After all this, the wrath of the Lord shall not cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.

Therefore shall the LORD have no pleasure in their young men, neither favour their fatherless and widows. For they are all together hypocrites and wicked, and all their mouths speak folly. After all this shall not the LORD's wrath cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.

Manasseh shall eat Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall eat Judah. After all this shall not the LORD's wrath cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still.

That ye come not among the prisoners, or lie among the dead? After all this shall not the wrath of the LORD cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still.

After that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped out of the house of Jacob, seek no more comfort at him that smote them, but shall comfort themselves with faithfulness and truth in the LORD, the holy one of Israel.

But soon after shall my wrath and mine indignation be fulfilled against their blasphemies.

yet shall he remain at Nob that day. After that, shall he lift up his hand against the mount Zion, against the hill of Jerusalem.

And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes: neither shall rebuke after the hearing of his ears.

Then shall the Gentiles enquire after the root of Jesse, which shall be set up for a token unto the Gentiles; for his dwelling shall be glorious.

the little owls shall cry in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shall be in their pleasant parlors. And as for Babylon's time, it is at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged.

that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us?

For thus hath the LORD said unto me: "I will take my rest, and look upon the matter in my habitation, like a fair heat after the rain, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

Then said the LORD, "Whereas my servant Isaiah goeth naked and barefoot, it is a token and signifying of the thing that after three years shall come upon Egypt and Ethiopia.

After this will I call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

After that, shall the seventy years of Tyre - even as long as their king's life was - be forgotten. And after seventy years, it shall happen to Tyre as with a harlot that playeth upon a lute.

Thus shall it happen after seventy years. The LORD shall visit the city of Tyre, and she shall convert unto her reward, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms that be in the world.

For it shall happen unto all lands and to all people, like as when a man smiteth down the olives, that are left upon the tree: or seeketh after grapes, when the wine gathering is out.