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Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore, because of the words in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had reached them,

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's body,Or hide trouble from my eyes.

Which grow dark because of iceAnd upon which the snow hides itself.

For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,Because our days on earth are but a shadow.

Then you would trust, because there is hope;And you would search around and rest securely.

Because he has stretched out his hand against GodAnd magnifies himself against the Almighty.

Why?—because there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.

My eye has also grown dim because of grief,And all my members are as a shadow.

"Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond,Even because of my haste within me.

"Because he knew no ease within his belly,In his covetousness, he does not let anything escape.

Is it because of your reverent fear that He reproves you,That He enters into judgment against you?

His survivors will be buried because of the plague,And their widows will not be able to weep.

Because I provided escape for the afflicted who cried for help,And the orphan who had no helper.

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,They have thrust aside their bridle before me.

"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,Or, in his upheaval, is there a cry for help because of them?

For disaster from God is a dread to me,And because of His exaltedness I can do nothing.

If I have been glad because my wealth was great,And because my hand had found so much,

Because I feared the great multitude,And the contempt of families terrified me,And I kept silent and did not go out of doors—

Then these three men ceased answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned; against Job his anger burned because he was proving himself righteous before God.