Exodus 5:19
Good News Translation
The foremen realized that they were in trouble when they were told that they had to make the same number of bricks every day as they had made before.

New Revised Standard Version
The Israelite supervisors saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You shall not lessen your daily number of bricks.”

Contemporary English Version
The men knew they were in deep trouble when they were ordered to make the same number of bricks each day.

New American Bible
The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble, having been told, “Do not reduce your daily amount of bricks!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

evil case

Deuteronomy 32:36 The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants: he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

Context
The Cry of the Israelites
18Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks. 19And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they came out from Pharao:…
Cross References
Exodus 5:8
And you shall lay upon them the task of bricks, which they did before; neither shall you diminish any thing thereof, for they are idle, and therefore they cry. saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Exodus 5:18
Go therefore and work: straw shall not be given you, and you shall deliver the accustomed number of bricks.

Exodus 5:20
And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood over against them as they came out from Pharao:

Exodus 5:18
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