6:6 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman thought to himself, 1 “Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?”
7:3 Queen Esther replied, “If I have met with your approval, 2 O king, and if the king is so inclined, grant me my life as my request, and my people as my petition.
1 tn Heb “said in his heart” (so ASV); NASB, NRSV “said to himself.”
2 tn Heb “If I have found grace in your eyes” (so also in 8:5); TEV “If it please Your Majesty.”