Esther 5:13

Availeth me nothing, i.e. gives me no content. Such torment did his envy and malice bring upon him. Sitting at the king's gate; enjoying that honour and privilege without disturbance, and denying me the worship due to me by my place, and by the king's command; though this last and the chief cause of his rage he was somewhat ashamed to express. Either Mordecai was come, having laid by his sackcloth for this time, that he might be in a capacity of coming thither, and so of understanding how matters proceeded. Besides, this was a private fast, and so he was not obliged always to wear his sackcloth in public, during the whole time of the fast, though he did once come abroad with it, that the cause of it might be publicly known, and so come to Esther's ears.