Esther 5:13

Esther's Banquet

¹² And Haman saith, 'Yea, Esther the queen brought none in with the king, unto the feast that she made, except myself, and also for to-morrow I am called to her, with the king, ¹³ 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.' ¹⁴ And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, 'Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.

Jew

Mordecai

No

1 Kings 21:4-6

and Ahab cometh in unto his house, sulky and wroth, because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite hath spoken unto him when he saith, 'I do not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers,' and he lieth down on his bed, and turneth round his face, and hath not eaten bread.

Esther 5:9

And Haman goeth forth on that day rejoicing and glad in heart, and at Haman's seeing Mordecai in the gate of the king, and he hath not risen nor moved for him, then is Haman full of fury against Mordecai.

Job 15:20

'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.

Job 18:4

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!

Philippians 4:11-12

not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am -- to be content;