Esther 5:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Yet this availeth me nothing It gives me no content. Such torment did his envy and malice bring upon him. So long as I see Mordecai sitting at the king's gate Enjoying that honour and privilege without disturbance, and denying me the worship due to me by the king's command. Thus though proud men have much to their mind, if they have not all, it is nothing. The thousandth part of what Haman had, would give a modest, humble man, as much happiness as he expects to receive from any thing under the sun. And Haman as passionately complains as if he was in the lowest depth of poverty.

Esther 5:13

13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.