Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+004       CHAPTER 4 (ESV) 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:   2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 4 Your words have…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+003       CHAPTER 3 (ESV) 11 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? 13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+002       CHAPTER 2 (ESV) 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Job+001         Job The wisdom of Proverbs describes how godly character generally leads to success. Ecclesiastes tempers this, warning that rewards are not guaranteed, since a kind of “crookedness” has come into our world. The book of Job goes further, exploring how righteous people sometimes suffer. The book…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+010       CHAPTER 10 (ESV) 1 King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+009       CHAPTER 9 (ESV) 20 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+008       CHAPTER 8 (ESV) 3 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 4 When the king held out…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+007       CHAPTER 7 (ESV) 1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you.…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+006       CHAPTER 6 (ESV) 1 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Esther+005       CHAPTER 5 (ESV) 9 And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home,…