¹¹ But I said, ‘Should a man like me run away? Would a man like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!’ ¹² Then I perceived and saw that God had not sent him at all, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. ¹³ He was hired for this purpose, to intimidate me and make me sin by acting in this way, and so they could give me a bad name, in order to taunt me.