Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

New American Standard Bible

How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters,
Who let out freely the ox and the donkey.

King James Version

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

Holman Bible

Those who sow seed are happy
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.

International Standard Version

How happy you will be, sowing your seed beside every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range freely!"

A Conservative Version

Blessed are ye who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.

American Standard Version

Blessed are yet that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

Amplified


Blessed (happy, fortunate) are you who cast your seed upon all waters [when the river overflows its banks and irrigates the land],
You who allow the ox and the donkey to roam freely.

Bible in Basic English

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

Darby Translation

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

Julia Smith Translation

Happy ye sowing upon all waters, sending the foot of the ox and the ass.

King James 2000

Blessed are you that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Happy [are] you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free.

Modern King James verseion

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the ass.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O how happy shall ye be, when ye shall safely sow your seed beside all waters, and drive thither the feet of your oxen and asses.

NET Bible

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

New Heart English Bible

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who set free the foot of the ox and the donkey.

The Emphasized Bible

How happy are ye who sow beside all waters, - Who send forth the foot of the ox and the ass.

Webster

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

Youngs Literal Translation

Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁר 
'esher 
Usage: 45

are ye that sow
זרע 
Zara` 
Usage: 56

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

רגל 
Regel 
Usage: 247

of the ox
שׁור 
Showr 
ox, bullock, cow, bull, wall
Usage: 78

References

Context Readings

Against The Carefree Women

19 Though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely. 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.



Cross References

Ecclesiastes 11:1

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

Isaiah 30:23-24

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

Isaiah 19:5-7

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

Isaiah 55:10-11

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Acts 2:41

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Acts 5:14

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

1 Corinthians 9:9-11

For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it for the oxen that God cares,

James 3:18

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

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