1 “Do you know the time when the wildmountain goats bear young? # Orcan you mark whenthe deer gives birth? 2 Can you number the monthsthatthey fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young? 3 They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring. 4 Their young ones are […]
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Job 40
1 Moreover theLordanswered Job, and said: 2 “Shallthe one who contends with the Almighty correctHim? # He whorebukes God, let him answer it.” Job’s Response to God 3 Then Job answered theLordand said: 4 “Behold,I am vile; What shall I answer You? # I lay my hand over my mouth. 5 Once I have spoken, […]
Job 41
1 “Can you draw outLeviathan with a hook, Orsnarehis tongue with a linewhichyou lower? 2 Can youput a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3 Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you? 4 Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him […]
Job 42
Job’s Repentance and Restoration 1 Then Job answered theLordand said: 2 “I know that Youcan do everything, And that no purposeofYourscan be withheld from You. 3 Youasked,‘Whoisthis who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, # Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 Listen, please, […]
Esther 1
The King Dethrones Queen Vashti 1 Now it came to pass in the days ofAhasuerus (thiswasthe Ahasuerus who reignedover one hundred and twenty-seven provinces,from India to Ethiopia), 2 in those days when King Ahasuerussat on the throne of his kingdom, whichwasinShushan the citadel, 3 thatin the third year of his reign hemade a feast for […]
Esther 2
Esther Becomes Queen 1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti,what she had done, and what had been decreed against her. 2 Then the king’s servants who attended him said: “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king; 3 and let the king appoint officers in all the […]
Esther 3
Haman’s Conspiracy Against the Jews 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha theAgagite, andadvanced him and set his seat above all the princes whowerewith him. 2 And all the king’s servants whowerewithin the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But […]
Esther 4
Esther Agrees to Help the Jews 1 When Mordecai learned all that had happened, hetore his clothes and put on sackclothand ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. Hecried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2 He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no onemightenter the […]
Esther 5
Esther’s Banquet 1 Now it happenedon the third day that Esther put onherroyalrobesand stood inthe inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. 2 So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing […]
Esther 6
The King Honors Mordecai 1 That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bringthe book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had […]