Judges 9:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ But the fig tree answered them, ‘Shall I stop producing my sweetness and my delicious fruit and go to sway over the trees?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ But the fig tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go to wave over the trees?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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?

Common English Bible

¹¹ “The fig tree replied to them, ‘Should I stop producing my sweetness and my delicious fruit, so that I can go to sway over the trees?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And it responded to them, 'How could I abandon my sweetness, and my very sweet fruits, and depart to be promoted among the other trees?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees?

Judges 9:11 Cross References

Judges 9:10

Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us.’

Judges 9:12

Then the trees said to the vine, ‘You come and reign over us.’