11But I said, "Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!"


In Context

8 I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head."

9 They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But I prayed, "Now strengthen my hands."

10 One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you-by night they are coming to kill you."

11 But I said, "Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!"

12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.

Nehemiah 6:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:11And I said: Should such a man as I Bee? and who is there that being as I am, would go into the temple, to save his life? I will not go in.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:11And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:11And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11I 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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11And I say, 'A man such as I — doth he flee? and who as I, that doth go in unto the temple, and live? — I do not go in.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11And 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.