Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”

so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.

And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!