^7 (A)If he says thus: ‘It is well,’ your servant will be safe. But if he is very angry, be sure that ^(B)evil is determined by him.

¹⁷ Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for ^(A)harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is such a ^(B)scoundrel^[a] that one cannot speak to him.”

⁷ Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

⁴ And the saying pleased Absalom and all the ^(A)elders of Israel.

⁹ But Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I knew certainly that evil was determined by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you?”

²³ “The plan pleased me well; so ^(A)I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe.