Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 5:13

13 Yet all this availeth me nothing , so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the kings gate .

i. e. Gives me no content. Such torment did his envy and malice bring upon him.

Enjoying that honour and priviledge without disturbance, and denying me the worship due to me by my place, and by the Kings command: though this last, and the chief cause of his rage, he was somewhat ashamed to express. Either Mordecai was come, having laid by his sackcloth for this time, that he might be in a capacity of coming thither, and so of understanding how matters proceeded. Besides this was a private fast, and so he was not oblig'd alwaies to wear his sackcloth in publick, during the whole time of the fast, though he did once come abroad with it, that the cause of it might be publickly known, and so come to Esthers ears.