1 Esdras 6:9-11

Wycliffe Bible

⁹ building a great house of God, and a temple of great polished stones, and of precious materials in the walls;

¹⁰ and those works busily in making, and to help, and to make welsome in the hands of them, and in all glory, full diligently to be performed.

¹¹ Then we asked the elder men, saying, Who suffered you (or who allowed you) to build this house, and to build [or (to) found] these works?