Nehemiah 4:3-7 Tobiah the Ammonite stood to the side, commenting, “If a fox were to jump onto what they’re building, it would collapse their stone wall!”

ISV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Tobiah the Ammonite stood to the side, commenting, “If a fox were to jump onto what they’re building, it would collapse their stone wall!”
⁴ Nehemiah’s Prayer“Listen, our God, because we are being mocked. Let their insults fall back on them, and let them be dragged away as captives into exile. ⁵ Don’t atone their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you, because they have demoralized the builders.”
⁶ So we rebuilt the wall, completing it halfway up, because the people were committed to working.
⁷ Sanballat Reacts to the ProgressBut when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repair work on the Jerusalem wall was progressing and that its breaches were being repaired, they flew into a rage.