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For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated them seventy and five thousand--but on the spoil they laid not their hand--

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren; seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his seed.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said: 'It may be that my sons have sinned, and blasphemed God in their hearts.' Thus did Job continually.

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Doth Job fear God for nought?

For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.

And Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

But he said unto her: 'Thou speakest as one of the impious women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' For all this did not Job sin with his lips.

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was very great.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it;

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;

For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest--

With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.

For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.