8 And the king himself returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the wine banquet;+ and Haʹman was fallen upon the couch+ on which Esther was. Consequently the king said: “Is there also to be a raping of the queen, with me in the house?” The word itself went out of the king’s mouth,+ and Haʹman’s face they covered.

14 The rage of a king means messengers of death,+ but the wise man is one that averts it.*+

2 The frightfulness of a king is a growling like that of a maned young lion.+ Anyone drawing his fury against himself is sinning against his own soul.+

12 Because of this the king himself became angry and got very furious,+ and he said to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.*+

41 “Then he will say, in turn, to those on his left, ‘Be on YOUR way from me,+ YOU who have been cursed, into the everlasting fire+ prepared for the Devil and his angels.+