Esther 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Yet all this does me no good so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹³ But all this loses its meaning every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King’s Gate.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ These were sent by the king's messengers to all the provinces, so as to kill and destroy all the Jews, from children all the way to the elderly, even little children and women, on one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to plunder their goods, even their necessities.

English Standard Version 2016

¹³ Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Esther 5:13 Cross References

Ezra 2:2

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the Israelite people:

Esther 5:9

Haman went out that day happy and in good spirits, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate and observed that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was infuriated with Mordecai;

Job 15:20

The wicked writhe in pain all their days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself in your anger— shall the earth be forsaken because of you or the rock be removed out of its place?

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.