9Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
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Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)It should seem the foregoing complaint was made to Nehemiah at the time when he had his head and hands as full as possible of the public business about building the wall; yet, perceiving it to be just, he did not reject it because it was unseasonable; he did not chide the petitioners, nor fall into a passion with them, for disturbing him when they saw how much he had to do, a fault which men of bu…
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