Esther 5:13
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
Revised Version 1895
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 came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Job 15:20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
Psalms 37:12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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 →