When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had invaded and intended to attack Jerusalem,

The Lord confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

The letter you sent to us has been translated and read in my presence.

Ezra the scribe stood on a towering wooden platform constructed for this purpose. Standing near him on his right were Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Masseiah. On his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;