Ester 5:13

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Tetapi sekalian ini satupun tiada gunanya kepadaku selama aku melihat si Mordekhai, orang Yahudi itu, lagi duduk di dalam pintu istana baginda.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Yet all this: Pride will ever render its possessor unhappy. Haman, though possessed of immense riches, glory, and honour, and the prime favourite of his king, is wretched, because he could not have the homage of that man whom his heart even despised! Oh, how distressing are the inquietudes of pride and vanity. 1 Kings 21:4-6, Job 15:20, Job 18:4, Ecclesiastes 1:2, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Philippians 4:11, Philippians 4:12

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 13:4 - Why art 1 Kings 20:43 - went Esther 2:19 - sat in the king's gate

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 5:13. 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!