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So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

So Esther's decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself."

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol will never rise up.

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

"Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

It is all the same, and so I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.'

Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You: