<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> grants success to the onep> <p class="poetry">whose behavior he finds commendable.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">It makes its tail stiff<n id="1" /> like a cedar,p> <p class="poetry">the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.p>

<p class="poetry">He is not enamored with the strength of a horse,p> <p class="poetry">nor is he impressed by the warrior&#8217;s strong legs.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">A fool takes no pleasure<n id="1" /> in understandingp> <p class="poetry">but only in disclosing<n id="2" /> what is on his mind.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">If someone wishes<n id="1" /> to contend<n id="2" /> with him,p> <p class="poetry">he cannot answer<n id="3" /> him one time in a thousand.p>

<p class="poetry">The king&#8217;s heart<n id="1" /> is in the hand<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> like channels of water;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he turns it wherever he wants.p>

<p class="poetry">Do not rush out of the king&#8217;s presence in haste &#8211; do not delay when the matter is unpleasant,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for he can do whatever he pleases.p>

But if the man does not want to marry his brother&#8217;s widow, then she<n id="1" /> must go to the elders at the town gate and say, &#8220;My husband&#8217;s brother refuses to preserve his brother&#8217;s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!&#8221;

Remain here tonight. Then in the morning, if he agrees to marry you,<n id="1" /> fine,<n id="2" /> let him do so.<n id="3" /> But if he does not want to do so, I promise, as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives, to marry you.<n id="4" /> Sleep here until morning.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">So Haman came in, and the king said to him, &#8220;What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?&#8221; Haman thought to himself,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?&#8221;