Esther 5:13

¹¹Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. ¹²I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

⁴You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

²⁰the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

⁹Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

⁴Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. ⁵But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, “Why is your spirit so sad that you eat no bread?”

⁶He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ He answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

¹⁴I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

²“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”