Esther 5:13
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New International Version (©2011)
But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king's gate."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then he added, "But this is all worth nothing as long as I see Mordecai the Jew just sitting there at the palace gate."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Still, none of this satisfies me since I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's Gate all the time."

International Standard Version (©2012)
But all this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

NET Bible (©2006)
Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Yet, all this is worth nothing to me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

American King James Version
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And whereas I have all these things, I think I have nothing, so long as I see Mardochai the Jew sitting before the king's gate.

Darby Bible Translation
Yet all this is of no avail to me so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

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

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

World English Bible
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

Young's Literal Translation
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.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:9-14 This account of Haman is a comment upon Pr 21:24. Self-admirers and self-flatterers are really self-deceivers. Haman, the higher he is lifted up, the more impatient he is of contempt, and the more enraged at it. The affront from Mordecai spoiled all. A slight affront, which a humble man would scarcely notice, will torment a proud man, even to madness, and will mar all his comforts. Those disposed to be uneasy, will never want something to be uneasy at. Such are proud men; though they have much to their mind, if they have not all to their mind, it is as nothing to them. Many call the proud happy, who display pomp and make a show; but this is a mistaken thought. Many poor cottagers feel far less uneasiness than the rich, with all their fancied advantages around them. The man who knows not Christ, is poor though he be rich, because he is utterly destitute of that which alone is true riches.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. All this availeth me nothing. The bitter drop in his cup deprived Haman's life of all sweetness. He had not learned the wisdom of setting pleasure against pain, joy against sorrow, satisfaction against annoyance. Much less had he taught himself to look upon the vexations and trials of life as blessings in disguise. His was a coarse and undisciplined nature, little better than that of a savage, albeit he was the chief minister of the first monarch in the world. So little proof is worldly greatness of either greatness or goodness of soul

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yet all this availeth me nothing,.... Is not equal or sufficient for me; it gives me no satisfaction and contentment:

so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate: not rising up to bow unto him; this single circumstance spoiled all his joy and pleasure.

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Haman's Plot against Mordecai
…12Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited to her also with the king. 13Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Ezra 2:2 in company with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah): The list of the men of the people of Israel:
Esther 5:9 Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king's gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai.