4For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king. Or quiet, but the compensation our adversary offers cannot be compared with the loss the king would suffer ”
5King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”