Jotham’s Parable
Judges 9:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’
- KJV
- But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
- WEB
- “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
- ASV
- But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
- LSV
- And the fig says to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
- YLT
- And the fig saith to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?
- DBY
- But the fig-tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?
- DRC
- And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?
- GNV
- But the fig tree answered them, Should I forsake my sweetenesse, and my good fruite, and goe to aduance me aboue the trees?
- JPS
- But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees?
- LXXE
- But the fig-tree said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruits, and go to be promoted over the trees?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ הַתְּאֵנָ֔ה הֶחֳדַ֨לְתִּי֙ אֶת־מָתְקִ֔י וְאֶת־תְּנוּבָתִ֖י הַטּוֹבָ֑ה וְהָ֣לַכְתִּ֔י לָנ֖וּעַ עַל־הָעֵצִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ἡ συκῆ, μὴ ἀπολείψασα ἐγὼ τὴν γλυκύτητά μου καὶ τὰ γεννήματά μου τὰ ἀγαθὰ, πορεύσομαι κινεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ξύλων;
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◆ Usurpation by Abimelech
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- Luke 13:6–7Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I…
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