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As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
