If Mordecai be] Or, Seeing Mordecai is.
shalt surely fall] Thus God sometime putteth in the mouth of the very wicked to speak that thing which he hath decreed shall come to passe.
surely fall before him] Or, fall quite down before him: For he being a Jew, will revenge the wrong done to him and his countrey-men: and favourites of princes plot the downfall of former favourites, lest they hinder their rising.