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.

“We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons.

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.

“All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court – that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!”

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.

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

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.

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

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.