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Judges 9:11

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9:11But the fig tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my sweet figs, my excellent fruit, just to sway above the other trees!’24

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  1. 24 Heb “Should I stop my sweetness and my good fruit and go to sway over the trees? The negative sentence in the translation reflects the force of the rhetorical question.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But the fig tree said to them,

“Should I stop giving

my sweetness and my good fruit,

and rule over trees?”

NLTNew Living Translation

But the fig tree also refused, saying,

‘Should I quit producing my sweet fruit

just to wave back and forth over the trees?’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But the fig tree said to them,

‘Should I stop producing my sweetness,

and my good crop,

to go sway over the trees?’

KJV 1900King James Version

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