Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Neither shall the head or tail, the branch or reed be able to do any work in Egypt.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
Holman Bible
will be able to do anything for Egypt.
International Standard Version
As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.
A Conservative Version
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
American Standard Version
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
Amplified
There will be no work for Egypt
Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.
Bible in Basic English
And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.
Darby Translation
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.
Julia Smith Translation
And there shall not be to Egypt a work which shall make head and tail, branch and reed.
King James 2000
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm branch or bulrush, may do.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {there will be nothing for Egypt to do}, head or tail, palm branch or reed.
Modern King James verseion
And Egypt shall have no work that the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
NET Bible
Egypt will not be able to do a thing, head or tail, shoots and stalk.
New Heart English Bible
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
The Emphasized Bible
And Egypt shall have nothing which can be don Which head or tail palm-top or rush, can do!
Webster
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may perform.
World English Bible
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
Youngs Literal Translation
And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.
Interlinear
Ma`aseh
Ro'sh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 19:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt
14 For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about. 15 Neither shall the head or tail, the branch or reed be able to do any work in Egypt. 16 Then shall the Egyptians be like unto women, afraid and astounded, at the motion of the hands which the LORD of Hosts shall shake over them.
Cross References
Isaiah 9:14-15
Therefore the LORD shall root out of Israel both head and tail, branch and twig in one day.
Psalm 128:2
For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be.
Proverbs 14:23
In every labour there is some profit; but only vain words bringeth forth penury.
Habakkuk 3:17
For the fig trees shall not be green, and the vines shall bear no fruit. The labour of the olive shall be but lost, and the land shall bring no corn: the sheep shall be taken out of the fold, and there shall be no cattle in the stalls.
Haggai 1:11
I have called for a drought, both upon the land and upon the mountains, upon corn, upon wine, and upon oil, upon everything that the ground bringeth forth, upon men and upon cattle, yea and upon all handy labour."
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you: