Then the priests and the Levites took charge of the silver, the gold, and the vessels that had been weighed out, to transport them to Jerusalem to the temple of our God.

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.

Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon, 392.

Joel son of Zicri was the officer in charge of them, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second-in-command over the city.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their colleagues in the days of Jeshua.

Then I gave instructions that the storerooms should be purified, and I brought back the equipment of the temple of God, along with the grain offering and the incense.

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

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

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” The words of Job are ended.

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.