He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
Song of Solomon 8:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You, O Solomon, can have your thousand [pieces of silver], and those who tend the fruit of it two hundred; but my vineyard, which is mine [with all its radiant joy], is before me! American Standard Version (1901) My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. Common English Bible My vineyard, my very own, is before me. You can have the thousand, Solomon— with two hundred for those who tend the fruit! Catholic Public Domain Version The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof. |
He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
Do not gaze at me because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but, my own vineyard I have not kept!
As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste,
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
O you who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
And he died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?