If you shall do this thing, and God command you so, then you shall be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
All Commentaries on Exodus 18:23 Go To Exodus 18
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Thou shalt. Hebrew, "and God shall order thee. "Jethro does not wish his advice should be followed, till God had been consulted. (Calmet)
By his plan, he thought Moses would have time to confer more with God, and promote his own welfare, and the convenient dispatch of business. (Menochius)