17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.
17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.
14 And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night.
15 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God.
16 And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.
17 But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.
18 Thou are spent with foolish labour, both thou and this people that is with thee: the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.
19 But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him:
18:17And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest [is] not good.
18:17Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.
18:17And Moses father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18:17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good.
18:17And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18:17And Moses's father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
18:17Moses' father-in-law said to him, |The thing that you do is not good.
18:17And the father-in-law of Moses saith unto him, 'The thing which thou art doing is not good;
18:17And Moses' father in law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.