Wisdom & Truth Verses

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them. {what...: Heb. according to their will}

And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

For the Jews that {were} in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

To stablish {this} among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and {of that} which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, {Pur: that is, Lot}

And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name {was} Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

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

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. {and he...: Heb. if he curse thee not to thy face}