Job 3-4Job Deplores His Birth3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job [a]spoke, and said:3 “May the day perish on which I was born,And the night in which it was said,‘A male child is conceived.’4 May that day be darkness;May God above not seek it,Nor the light shine upon it.5 May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;May a cloud settle on it;May the blacknes...  Read More

Job 1-2Job and His Family in Uz1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and [a]shunned evil. 2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this ma...  Read More

Esther 9-10The Jews Destroy Their Tormentors9 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, the time came for the king’s command and his decree to be executed. On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them. 2 The Jews gathered together in their cities throughout...  Read More

Esther 6-8The King Honors Mordecai6 That night [a]the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written that Mordecai had told of [b]Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 3 Then the king said, “What honor or dignity has...  Read More

Esther 3-5Haman’s Conspiracy Against the Jews3 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 2 And all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage. 3 Then the ...  Read More

Esther 1-2The King Dethrones Queen Vashti1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus[a] (this was the Ahasuerus who reigned over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia), 2 in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan[b] the [c]citadel, 3 that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants—the ...  Read More