Archive for March, 2007
16:1 Then Job replied:
16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.
What miserable comforters2 are you all!
16:3 Will3 there be an end to your4 windy words?5
Or what provokes6 you that you answer?7
16:4 I also could speak8 like you,
if9 you were in my place;
I could pile up10 words against you
and I could shake [...]
11:1 Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke up and said:
11:2 “Should not this2 abundance of words be answered,3
or should this4 talkative man5
be vindicated?6
11:3 Will your idle talk7 reduce people to silence,8
and will no one rebuke9 you when you mock?10
11:4 For you have said, ‘My teaching11 is flawless,
and I am pure in your sight.’
[...]
10:18 “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died47
and no eye would have seen me!
10:19 I should have been as though I had never existed;48
I should have been carried
right from the womb to the grave!
10:20 Are not my days few?49
Cease,50 then, and leave51 me alone,52
that I may find [...]
6:14 “To the one in despair, kindness46 should come from his friend47
even if48 he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
6:15 My brothers49 have been as treacherous50 as a seasonal stream,51
and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams52
that flow away.53
6:16 They54 are dark55 because of ice;
snow is piled56 up over them.57
6:17 When they [...]
1:12 There was a man3 in the land of Uz4 whose5 name was Job.6 And that man was pure7 and upright,8 one who feared God and turned away from evil.9 1:2 Seven10 sons and three daughters were born to him.11 1:3 His possessions12 included13 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and [...]
9:1 In the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), on its thirteenth day, the edict of the king and his law were to be executed. It was on this day that the enemies of the Jews had supposed that they would gain power over them. But contrary to expectations, the Jews gained power [...]
6:6 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman thought to himself,7 “Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?” 6:7 So Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king [...]
2:10 Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage,22 for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.23 2:11 And day after day Mordecai used to walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem in order to learn how Esther was doing24 and what might happen to her.
[...]
13:4 But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms4 of the temple of our God. 13:5 He made for himself a large storeroom where previously they had been keeping5 the grain offering, the incense, and the vessels, along with the tithes of the grain, [...]
9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law.33 They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies. 9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their [...]
