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 of Job uses […]

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 written in […]

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 the same, […]

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 the golden […]

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. And what […]