Esther 8:6

For how can I endure to see the euill that shall come vnto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kinred?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"
- New American Standard Version (1995)

for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
- American Standard Version (1901)

For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?
- Basic English Bible

For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
- Darby Bible

For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
- Webster's Bible

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"
- World English Bible

for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'
- Youngs Literal Bible

for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for Esther 8:6

8:5 If &c. - She uses various expressions, that she might confirm the king's favour, by such a full submission to his good pleasure. Haman - She prudently takes off the hatefulness of the action from the king, and lay's it upon Haman, who had for his own ends contrived the whole business, and circumvented the king in it.

8:8 Reverse - For this reason he could not recall the former letters, because they were irrevocable by the law of the Medes and Persians. How much more prudent is our constitution, that no law whatever can be established as to be unrepealable? It is God's prerogative, not to repent, and to say what can never be altered.