Nehemiah 6:8
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New International Version (©2011)
I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head."

New Living Translation (©2007)
I replied, "There is no truth in any part of your story. You are making up the whole thing."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then I sent a message to him saying, "Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then I replied to him, "There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind."

International Standard Version (©2012)
I sent word back to him, "Nothing has happened as you've claimed. You're making up these charges in your imagination."

NET Bible (©2006)
I sent word back to him, "We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. All of this is a figment of your imagination."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then I sent someone to tell him, "None of your accusations are true. You are making them up out of your own imagination."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you invent them out of your own heart.

American King James Version
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.

American Standard Version
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.

Darby Bible Translation
And I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

English Revised Version
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thy own heart.

World English Bible
Then I sent to him, saying, "There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart."

Young's Literal Translation
And I send unto him, saying, 'It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-9 Let those who are tempted to idle merry meetings by vain companions, thus answer the temptation, We have work to do, and must not neglect it. We must never suffer ourselves to be overcome, by repeated urgency, to do anything sinful or imprudent; but when attacked with the same temptation, must resist it with the same reason and resolution. It is common for that which is desired only by the malicious, to be falsely represented by them as desired by the many. But Nehemiah knew at what they aimed, he not only denied that such things were true, but that they were reported; he was better known than to be thus suspected. We must never omit any known duty for fear it should be misconstrued; but, while we keep a good conscience, let us trust God with our good name. God's people, though loaded with reproach, are not really fallen so low in reputation as some would have them thought to be. Nehemiah lifted up his heart to Heaven in a short prayer. When, in our Christian work and warfare, we enter upon any service or conflict, this is a good prayer, I have such a duty to do, such a temptation to grapple with; now, therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. Every temptation to draw us from duty, should quicken us the more to duty.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then I sent unto him,.... Whether a letter, or a messenger, is not said:

saying there are no such things done as thou sayest; that there was any scheme formed to rebel, and make him king, or that prophets were appointed to declare him such:

but thou feignest them out of thine own heart; in short, that they were no other than lies of his own inventing.

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Sanballat's Threats and Conspiracy
…7And you have also appointed prophets to preach of you at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together. 8Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart. 9For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. …

Nehemiah 6:7 and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: 'There is a king in Judah!' Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us meet together."
Job 13:4 You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
Psalm 52:2 You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.