12. Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.
13. Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him."
14. While they were still talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hastily brought Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.