出埃及记 5:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

沒有草給你的僕人，但他們對我們說：‘你們做磚吧！’看哪，你的僕人受了責打，其實這是你自己人民的錯。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
督 工 的 不 把 草 给 仆 人 ， 并 且 对 我 们 说 ： 做 砖 罢 ！ 看 哪 ， 你 仆 人 挨 了 打 ， 其 实 是 你 百 姓 的 错 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Then the Israelite foremen went to the king and complained, "Why are you treating us, your servants, this way? ¹⁶ You give us no straw, but we are commanded to make bricks. Our slave masters beat us, but it is your own people's fault." ¹⁷ The king answered, "You are lazy! You don't want to work! That is why you ask to leave here and make sacrifices to the Lord . ¹⁸ Now, go back to work! We will not give you any straw, but you must make just as many bricks as you did before." ¹⁹ The Israelite foremen knew they were in trouble, because the king had told them, "You must make just as many bricks each day as you did before." ²⁰ As they were leaving the meeting with the king, they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them. ²¹ So they said to Moses and Aaron, "May the Lord punish you. You caused the king and his officers to hate us. You have given them an excuse to kill us." ²² Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Lord, why have you brought this trouble on your people? Is this why you sent me here? ²³ I went to the king and said what you told me to say, but ever since that time he has made the people suffer. And you have done nothing to save them."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Ezekiel 16:4 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is no straw given unto thy servants,.... As used to be, which they supposed Pharaoh knew nothing of, and by which it appears that the order given by Pharaoh, Exodus 5:6 was not given in the hearing of the officers, only to the taskmasters, and by them to be made known to the officers, though indeed both are there mentioned, and both represent this to the people, Exodus 5:10

and they say to us, make brick, though they had no straw to make or burn it with:

and, behold, thy servants are beaten; because the same number of bricks is not made as heretofore, but the fault is in thine own people; the taskmasters, who sent the people abroad to get straw or stubble themselves, and therefore could not make the same bricks as before; or "thy people sin" n, the guilt is theirs: or by thy people are meant the Israelites, whom they call Pharaoh's people to gain favour with him; and then the sense is, either "sin" is imputed "to thy people" o, the blame is laid upon them, or punishment is inflicted on them without cause, sin being often put for punishment; they are wrongfully charged with a fault, and wrongfully punished.

n וחטאת עמך "et peccat populus tuns", Montanus, Drusius, Cartwright. o So Vatablus, Piscator, and some in Munster, Pagninus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 5:16. The fault is in thine own people. — חטאת chatath, the SIN, is in thy own people. 1st. Because they require impossibilities; and 2dly, because they punish us for not doing what cannot be performed.