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So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?"

Then the king said to Haman, "Make haste, take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mor'decai the Jew who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned."

So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he arrayed Mor'decai and made him ride through the open square of the city, proclaiming, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."

So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.

And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mor'decai. Then the anger of the king abated.

So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out in haste, urged by the king's command; and the decree was issued in Susa the capital.

So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mor'decai had written to them.

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

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

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,

"Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be just before God?

Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.