[4] For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. [5] Then the king Ahasuerus answered unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do [6] And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. was afraid before the king and the queen.