Haman related the events that had happened to him to Zeresh his wife and to his friends. His friends and his wife said to him, “If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will assuredly fall; and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. Wise men. Probably the magi, who concluded, from the first miscarriage, that he undertaking would prove abortive, ( Calmet.) as they were also informed of God’s protection given repeatedly to the Jews. Septuagint “because the living God is with him.” Chal. They might have heard of the fate of Sennacherib and of Holofernes, ( Calmet.) or of God’s promises, (Genesis 13 and 15) unless they were guided by human prudence. Worthington.