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?
And I sent {H7971} messengers {H4397} unto them, saying {H559}, I am doing {H6213} a great {H1419} work {H4399}, so that I cannot {H3201} come down {H3381}: why should the work {H4399} cease {H7673}, whilst {H834} I leave {H7503} it, and come down {H3381} to you?
so I sent them messengers with this message: "I'm too busy with important work to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to come down to you?"
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”
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?
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Matthew 10:16
¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. -
John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. -
1 Timothy 4:15
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. -
1 Timothy 4:16
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. -
Proverbs 14:15
¶ The simple believeth every word: but the prudent [man] looketh well to his going. -
Luke 14:30
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. -
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for [there is] no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.