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.'
Young's Literal Translation
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 cometh in unto his house, sulky and wroth, because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite hath spoken unto him when he saith, 'I do not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers,' and he lieth down on his bed, and turneth round his face, and hath not eaten bread.
Job 15:20'All 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 against him his teeth.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation 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 →