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Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

"According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasu-e'rus conveyed by the eunuchs?"

Then King Ahasu-e'rus said to Queen Esther and to Mor'decai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he would lay hands on the Jews.

Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. And therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had befallen them,

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.

And you will have confidence, because there is hope; you will be protected and take your rest in safety.

Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,

because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,

"Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

"Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.

because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, or because my hand had gotten much;

because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors--

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;

he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

Now Eli'hu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.