Moreover,they were speakingabout his gooddeedsin my presenceand reportedmy wordsto him. Then Tobiahsentlettersto frightenme.
He was hiredfor thisreason,that I might becomefrightenedand actaccordinglyand sin,so that they might havean evilreportin orderthat they could reproachme.
For manyin Judahwere boundby oathto him becausehe was the son-in-lawof Shecaniahthe sonof Arah,and his sonJehohananhad marriedthe daughterof Meshullamthe sonof Berechiah.
For allof them were [trying] to frightenus, thinking,"They will becomediscouragedwith the workand it will not be done."But now,[O God], strengthenmy hands.
Now whenthe wallwas rebuiltand I had setup the doors,and the gatekeepersand the singersand the Leviteswere appointed,
Those who forsakethe lawpraisethe wicked,But those who keepthe lawstrivewith them.
"Ifyou were of the world,the worldwould loveits own;but becauseyou are not of the world,but I choseyou out of the world,becauseof thisthe worldhatesyou.
"The worldcannothateyou, but it hatesMe becauseI testifyof it, that its deedsare evil.
They are from the world;thereforethey speak[as] from the world,and the worldlistensto them.
