Esther 5:13
and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the king.”
Literal Standard Version
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 Ahab comes to his house, sulky and angry, because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite has spoken to him when he says, “I do not give the inheritance of my fathers to you,” and he lies down on his bed, and turns around his face, and has not eaten bread.
Job 15:20All [the] days of the wicked he is paining himself, || And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
Psalms 37:12The wicked is devising against the righteous, || And gnashing his teeth against him.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress of 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 →