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Then the king said, Cause Haman to hurry, that it may be done as Esther has said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?

Then the king said to Haman, Hurry, and take the apparel and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

Then king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared presume in his heart to do so?

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

So the posts that rode on swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hurried and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.

And the king commanded it to be done so: and a decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

the Jews appointed, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing thereof, and according to the appointed time thereof, every year;

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting had 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 renounced God in their hearts. Thus Job did continually.

And Yahweh said to Satan, Look, all that he has is in your power; only on him do not put forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.

So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and smote Job with intense boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

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

So that he sets up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

So the poor has hope, And iniquity stops her mouth.

See this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good.