Nehemiah 6:3 - Modern King James Version

³ And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and come 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."

Nehemiah 6:3 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 4:13

And I stationed in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people according to their families with their sword, their spears, and their bows.

Nehemiah 6:2

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me harm.

Nehemiah 6:4

And they sent to me four times in this way. And I answered them in the same way.

Proverbs 14:15

The simple believes every word, but the wise man watches his step.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.

Luke 14:30

saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

John 9:4

I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.