Judges 5:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ Why satest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses 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 ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds:

Psalm 4:4

Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah

Psalm 68:13

Will ye lie among the sheepfolds, As the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold?

Psalm 77:6

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit made diligent search.

Numbers 32:24

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Numbers 32:6

And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?

Philippians 2:21

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Judges 5:15

And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; as was Issachar, so was Barak; into the valley they rushed forth at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben there were great resolves of heart.