6:12 I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. 1 6:13 He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I 2 would be discredited. 3
1 tnHeb “and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.”
2 tc The translation reads לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the MT reading לָהֶם (lahem, “to them”).