Nehemiah 6:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ So I sent messengers to them, saying, ‘I am doing important work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave to come down to you?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

Common English Bible

³ so I sent messengers to tell them, “I’m doing important work, so I can’t come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down to you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying: "I am doing a great work, and I cannot descend, lest perhaps it may be neglected when I go out and descend to you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I sent messengers to them, saying: I am doing a great work, and I cannot come down, lest it be neglected whilst I come and go down to you.

Nehemiah 6:3 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 4:13

So I stationed people behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

Sanballat and Geshem  sent me a message: ‘Come, let’s meet together in the villages of  the Ono Valley.’  They were planning to harm me.

Nehemiah 6:4

Four times they sent me the same proposal, and I gave them the same reply.

Proverbs 14:15

The inexperienced one believes anything, but the sensible one watches  his steps.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength,  because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom  in Sheol where you are going.

Matthew 10:16

‘Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, “This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.”

John 9:4

We   must do the works   of him who sent me   while it is day.   Night is coming when no one can work.