Esther 5:13
Yet all this profiteth me nothing, every time that I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 21:4And Achab came into his house low-spirited and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Yizre'elite had spoken to him, when he said, I will not give unto thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid himself down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no food.
Job 15:20All his days is the wicked plagued with pain, and the number of years which are laid by for the tyrant.
Psalms 37:12The wicked purposeth evil against the just, and gnasheth against him with his teeth.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun: and, behold, all is vanity and a torture of the spirit.
Matthew Henry on Esther 5:10-14
Haman's Joy and Chagrin; Haman's Mediated Revenge. ( b. c. 510.) 9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted… Read the whole commentary →