קוּם

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

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

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?