Nehemiah 6:3

3. Why should the work cease Though Nehemiah saw through their foul designs he was too wise to utter his suspicions, and maintained a noble dignity of reserve. His answer to them also contains a most consummate hint of their low plotting. “I know not any language,” says Dr. A. Clarke, “which a man who is employed on important labours can use more suitably as an answer to the thousand invitations and provocations he may have to remit his work, enter into useless or trivial conferences, or notice weak, wicked, and malicious attacks on his work and his motives: ‘I am doing a great work, so I cannot stoop to your nonsense or notice your malevolence. Why should the work cease while I leave it, and come down to such as you?’”