SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:13
Mas todo esto nada me sirve cada vez que veo al judío Mardoqueo sentado a la puerta del rey.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Esther 5:13
Verse 13. Yet all this availeth me nothing] Pride will ever render its possessor unhappy. He has such a high opinion of his own worth, that he conceives himself defrauded by every one who does not pay him all the respect and homage which he conceives to be his due. The soul was made for God, and nothing but God can fill it and make it happy. Angels could not be happy in glory, when they had cast off their allegiance to their Maker. As soon as his heart had departed from God, Adam would needs go to the forbidden fruit, to satisfy a desire which was only an indication of his having been unfaithful to his God. Solomon, in all his glory, possessing every thing heart could wish, found all to be vanity and vexation of spirit; because his soul had not God for its portion. Ahab, on the throne of Israel, takes to his bed, and refuses to eat bread, not merely because he cannot get the vineyard of Naboth, but because he had not God in his heart, who could alone satisfy its desires. Haman, on the same ground, though the prime favourite of the king, is wretched because he cannot have a bow from that man whom his heart even despised. O, how distressing are the inquietudes of vanity. And how wretched is the man who has not the God of Jacob for his help, and in whose heart Christ dwells not by faith!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. Yet all this availeth me nothing , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-14 - This account of Haman is a comment upon Pr 21:24. Self-admirers an self-flatterers are really self-deceivers. Haman, the higher he is lifted up, the more impatient he is of contempt, and the more enrage at it. The affront from Mordecai spoiled all. A slight affront, which 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; thoug 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 an make a show; but this is a mistaken thought. Many poor cottagers fee far less uneasiness than the rich, with all their fancied advantage 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 __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וכל 3605 זה 2088 איננו 369 שׁוה 7737 לי בכל 3605 עת 6256 אשׁר 834 אני 589 ראה 7200 את 853 מרדכי 4782 היהודי 3064 יושׁב 3427 בשׁער 8179 המלך׃ 4428
