⁷ If he says, ‘Very well,’ then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper,^(A) you can be sure that he is determined^(B) to harm me.

¹⁷ Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked^(A) man that no one can talk to him.”

⁷ The king got up in a rage,^(A) left his wine and went out into the palace garden.^(B) But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate,^(C) stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.

³³ But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended^(A) to kill David.