Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.

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

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

In those days, as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa the citadel,

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus’ royal palace.

So Hathach went to Mordecai at the plaza of the city in front of the king’s gate.

So Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king wishes to honor,

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

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty’s mind I will not conceal.

With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.