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The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.

But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."

But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."

But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes."

But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.

For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.

How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

"But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face.

When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."