nehemiah made sorry

you were made sorry... but... your sorrow led you to repentance. for you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way... Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done...

paul wrote this to the corinthians, but it seems to me that it applies to nehemiah as well... he must have experienced this godly sorrow that did lead to repentance even though we are not told that nehemiah had committed any particular sin...after all, we all sin daily...nehemiah's godly sorrow resulted in each of the fruits which paul delineated many years later...