Catholic Public Domain Version
"And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.” "
— Nehemiah 6:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
“And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. ”
“I said, "Should such a man as I flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in."”
“But I replied,“Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life? I will not go!””
“And I said: Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.”
“And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.”
“And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
And I sent to them, saying: “There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart.”
For all these men wished to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would cease. For this reason, I strengthened my hands all the more.
And I entered into the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, in secret. And he said: “Let us consult together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple. And let us close the doors of the temple. For they will come to kill you, and they will arrive in the night to put you to death.”
And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.”
And I understood that God had not sent him, but he had spoken to me as if he were prophesying, and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.
Remember me, O Lord, because of Tobiah and Sanballat, because of their works of this kind. Then, too, Noadiah, a prophetess, and the rest of the prophets, would have made me afraid.