Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil?

New American Standard Bible

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

King James Version

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Holman Bible

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

International Standard Version

Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field?

A Conservative Version

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?

American Standard Version

Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

Amplified


Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed?
Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?

Bible in Basic English

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Darby Translation

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?

Julia Smith Translation

Shall he ploughing, plough all the day to sow? shall he open and level his earth?

King James 2000

Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

Modern King James verseion

Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.

NET Bible

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

New Heart English Bible

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Webster

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

World English Bible

Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Youngs Literal Translation

The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

to sow
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

doth he open
פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

and break the clods
שׂדד 
Sadad 
Usage: 3

References

Context Readings

A Parable Of Yahweh's Work

23 Give ear, and hear ye my voice, - Hearken, and hear ye my speech: - 24 All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil? 25 Doth he not when he hath levelled the face thereof, Cast abroad the fennel? And, the cummin, doth he not scatter? And plant wheat in rows, And barley in a lot, And spelt in the border thereof?


Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus saith Yahweh Unto the men of Judah and unto Jerusalem, Till ye the untilled ground, - And do not sow among thorns.

Hosea 10:11-12

But, Ephraim, shall be a heifer broken in, loving to tread out corn, when, I, have passed over upon her fair neck, - I will drive Ephraim, Judah, shall plow, Jacob, shall harrow to him.

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