Esther 5:13 BSB — MannaFest

Esther 5:13

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
זֶ֕ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
אֵינֶ֥נּוּ	'ei.Ne.nu	not it	H369 →
שֹׁוֶ֖ה	sho.Veh	[is] adequate	H7737 →
לִ֑י	Li	for me
בְּכָל־	be.khol	at any	H3605 →
עֵ֗ת	'Et	time	H6256 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	when	H834 →
אֲנִ֤י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
רֹאֶה֙	ro.'Eh	[am] seeing	H7200 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
מָרְדֳּכַ֣י	ma.re.do.Khai	Mordecai	H4782 →
הַיְּהוּדִ֔י	hai.ye.hu.Di	the Jew	H3064 →
יוֹשֵׁ֖ב	yo.Shev	sitting	H3427 →
בְּשַׁ֥עַר	be.Sha.'ar	at [the] gate of	H8179 →
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
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- Psalms 144:4
  Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Romans 8:20
  For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
- Ecclesiastes 5:10
  He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
- Psalms 39:5–6
  You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Ecclesiastes 12:8
  “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
  Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to…
- Ecclesiastes 2:17
  So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
  To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…

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Where the connections lead

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