Judges 5:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds, to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Why [Reuben] did you linger among the sheepfolds listening to the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ “Why did you stay back among the sheep pens, listening to the music for the flocks?” For the clans of Reuben there was deep soul-searching.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Why do you live between two borders, so that you hear the bleating of the flocks? Reuben was divided against himself. Contention was found among great souls.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayest hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.

Judges 5:16 Cross References

Genesis 49:14

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds;

Psalm 4:4

When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Psalm 68:13

though they stay among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.

Psalm 77:6

I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit:

Numbers 32:24

Build towns for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Numbers 32:6

But Moses said to the Gadites and to the Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

Philippians 2:21

All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

Judges 5:15

the chiefs of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed out at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.