Exodus 18:17
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But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.

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Context
Jethro Advises Moses
16And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws. 17But he said: The thing thou dost is not good.18Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:16
And when any controversy falleth out among them, they come to me to judge between them, and to shew the precepts of God, and his laws.

Exodus 18:18
Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.

Lexicon
But Moses’
מֹשֶׁ֖ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

father-in-law
חֹתֵ֥ן (ḥō·ṯên)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2859: To give, away in marriage, to contract affinity by marriage

said
וַיֹּ֛אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to him,
אֵלָ֑יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

“What
הַדָּבָ֔ר (had·dā·ḇār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

you are
אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

doing
עֹשֶֽׂה׃ (‘ō·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

is not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

good.
טוֹב֙ (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good


Additional Translations
But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.And Moses' father in law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.

And Moses father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, Thou dost not this thing rightly,

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good.

And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

And Moses's father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

Moses' father-in-law said to him, "The thing that you do is not good.

And the father-in-law of Moses saith unto him, 'The thing which thou art doing is not good;
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