<p class="poetry">Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire,p> <p class="poetry">so is a contentious person<n id="1" /> to kindle strife.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, I create the craftsman,p> <p class="poetry">who fans the coals into a firep> <p class="poetry">and forges a weapon.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I create the destroyer so he might devastate.p>

<p class="bodytext">From the day that I was appointed<n id="1" /> governor<n id="2" /> in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes &#8211; twelve years in all &#8211; neither I nor my relatives<n id="3" /> ate the food allotted to the governor.<n id="4" />