235 : Basic English : Job 11,12; Romans 4 1. Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

2. Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

3. Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

4. You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

5. But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

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234 : Basic English : Job 9,10; Romans 3 1. And Job made answer and said,

2. Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

3. If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

4. He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

5. It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

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233 : Basic English : Job 7,8; Romans 2 1. Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

2. As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

3. So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

4. When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

5. My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

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232 : Basic English : Job 5,6; Romans 1 1. Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?

2. For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

3. I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

4. Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

5. Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

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231 : Basic English : Job 3,4; Acts 28 1. Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

2. Job made answer and said,

3. Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

4. That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

5. Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

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230 : Basic English : Esther 10; Job 1,2; Acts 27 1. And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

2. And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?

3. For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.

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229 : Basic English : Esther 7,8,9; Acts 26 1. So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.

2. And the king said to Esther again on the second day, while they were drinking, What is your prayer, Queen Esther? for it will be given to you; and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.

3. Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:

4. For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

5. Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?

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228 : Basic English : Esther 4,5,6; Acts 25 1. Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.

2. And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.

3. And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

4. And Esther's women and her servants came and gave her word of it. Then great was the grief of the queen: and she sent robes for Mordecai, so that his clothing of haircloth might be taken off; but he would not have them.

5. Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

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227 : Basic English : Esther 2,3; Acts 24 1. After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.

2. Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:

3. Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;

4. And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so.

5. Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

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226 : Basic English : Nehemiah 13; Esther 1; Acts 23 1. On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;

2. Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.

3. So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.

4. Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God, being a friend of Tobiah,

5. Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

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