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 Satan smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal and he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity ? curse God, and die But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

The king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and he said, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler of the kingdom, Then was Daniel brought in, and said, This is the interpretation. God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting; thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me : forasmuch as before him innocence was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den.

The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittal, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarnish from the presence of the Lord. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah