Job 7:5

Nova Vulgata

Respondensque rex Asuerus ait: "Quis est iste et ubi est, ut haec audeat facere?".

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Deus autem dedit in corde meo, et congregavi optimates, et magistratus, et vulgus, ut recenserem eos : et inveni librum census eorum, qui ascenderant primum, et inventum est scriptum in eo.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Respondensque rex Assuerus, ait: Quis est iste, et cujus potenti�, ut h�c audeat facere?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who is he: Genesis 27:33, Job 9:24

that durst: etc. Heb. whose heart hath filled him, Acts 5:3

Reciprocal: Esther 9:25 - when Esther came Job 18:8 - he is cast Proverbs 14:17 - a man John 13:25 - who

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the King Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen,.... The words in the original text lie thus, "and the King Ahasuerus said, and he said to Esther the queen"; which doubling of the word does not signify, as Jarchi suggests, that before he spoke to her by a messenger, or middle person, but, now he knew she was of a royal family, he spoke to her himself; but it is expressive of the ruffle of his mind, and the wrath and fury he was in, that he said it again and again, with a stern countenance and great vehemence of speech:

who is he? and where is he? who is the man? and where does he live?

that durst presume in his heart to do so; that has boldness, impudence, and courage enough to perpetrate so vile an action: or "that has filled his heart" i; the devil no doubt filled his heart to do it, see Acts 5:3, but the king had either forgot the decree he had granted, and the countenance he had given him to execute it; or, if he remembered it, he was now enraged that he should be drawn in to such an action by him; and perhaps till now was ignorant of Esther's descent, and knew not that she would be involved in the decree.

i אשר מלאו לבו "qui replevit cor suum", Drusius; "implevit", De Dieu.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 7:5. Who is he, and where is he — There is a wonderful abruptness and confusion in the original words, highly expressive of the state of mind in which the king then was:

מי הוא זה ואי זה הוא אשר מלאו לבו לעשות כן mi hu zeh veey zeh hu asher melao libbo laasoth ken.

"Who? He? This one? And where? This one? He? Who hath filled his heart to do thus?"

He was at once struck with the horrible nature of a conspiracy so cruel and diabolic.