17Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.
17Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.
14 When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, "What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?"
15 Moses answered him, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will.
16 Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God's decrees and laws."
17 Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.
18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.
19 Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people's representative before God and bring their disputes to him.
18:17And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest [is] not good.
18:17But he said: The thing thou dost 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.