Exodus 5:9

WEB

⁹Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

KJV

⁹Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

BSB

⁹Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

FBV

⁹Make their work harder so they can get on with it and not pay any attention to all these lies!”

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Extra References

Malachi 3:14

¹⁴You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?

2 Kings 18:20

²⁰You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

²then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

Zechariah 1:6

⁶But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”

Job 16:3

³Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Ephesians 5:6

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.