New Revised Standard Version
So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from break of dawn until the stars came out.

Contemporary English Version
Every day from dawn to dark, half of the workers rebuilt the walls, while the rest stood guard with their spears.

New American Bible
Thus we went on with the work, half with spears in hand, from daybreak till the stars came out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.

And let us do the work: and let one half of us hold our spears from the rising of the morning, till the stars appear.

So we

1 Corinthians 15:10,58 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me: . . .

Galatians 6:9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

Colossians 1:29 Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.