New Revised Standard Version
Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence, and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

Contemporary English Version
The people would always tell me about the good things Tobiah had done, and then they would tell Tobiah everything I had said. So Tobiah kept sending letters, trying to frighten me.

New American Bible
They would praise his good deeds in my presence and relate to him whatever I said; and Tobiah sent letters trying to intimidate me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.

And they praised him also before me, and they related my words to him: And Tobias sent letters to put me in fear.

they reported

Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

John 15:19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them.

words.

Nehemiah 6:9,13 For all these men thought to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would leave off. Wherefore I strengthened my hands the more: . . .

Isaiah 37:10-14 Thus shall you speak to Ezechias the king of Juda, saying: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the king of the Assyrians. . . .

Acts 4:18-21 And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus. . . .