Luke 14:28-32 For which one of you who wants to build a lookout tower will not first sit down and calculate its cost, to see whether he has enough money and materiel to complete it?

AUV⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁸ For which one of you who wants to build a [lookout] tower will not first sit down and calculate its cost, to see whether he has enough [money and materiel] to complete it? ²⁹ For if he does not, maybe after he has laid the foundation and [then] is not able to complete [the tower], everyone who sees it will ridicule him, ³⁰ saying, ‘This man began to build [a tower] but was not able to finish it.’ ³¹ Or what king, planning to engage another king in war, will not first sit down and evaluate whether he will be able, with ten thousand [soldiers], to defeat someone who attacks him with twenty thousand [soldiers]? ³² Or maybe, while the enemy is still a long way off, he will send representatives to ask for peace terms.