For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!”
Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.