17Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good.


In Context

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.

Exodus 18:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:17And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest [is] not good.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:17And Moses father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:17And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17And Moses's father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17Moses' father-in-law said to him, |The thing that you do is not good.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17And the father-in-law of Moses saith unto him, 'The thing which thou art doing is not good;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:17And Moses' father in law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.