Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Mayest thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour unto him?

New American Standard Bible

“Will you trust him because his strength is great
And leave your labor to him?

King James Version

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Holman Bible

Can you depend on it because its strength is great?
Would you leave it to do your hard work?

International Standard Version

Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?

A Conservative Version

Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?

American Standard Version

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

Amplified


“Will you trust him because his strength is great
And leave your labor to him?

Bible in Basic English

Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

Darby Translation

Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Julia Smith Translation

Wilt thou trust in him because great his strength? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

King James 2000

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Can you trust it because its strength [is] great, or will you hand your labor over to it?

Modern King James verseion

Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

NET Bible

Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

New Heart English Bible

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

The Emphasized Bible

Wilt thou trust in him, because of the greatness of his strength? Wilt thou leave unto him thy toil?

Webster

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labor to him?

World English Bible

Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

Youngs Literal Translation

Dost thou trust in him because great is his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Wilt thou trust
בּטח 
Batach 
Usage: 120

is great
רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

or wilt thou leave
עזב 
`azab 
Usage: 28

יגיע 
Y@giya` 
Usage: 16

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

The Wild Ox

10 Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys? 11 Mayest thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour unto him? 12 Mayest thou believe him, that he will bring home thy corn, or to carry anything unto thy barn?

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

And God said, "Let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over all worms that creep on the earth."

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.

Genesis 9:2

The fear also and dread of you be upon all beasts of the earth, and upon all fowls of the air, and upon all that creepeth on the earth, and upon all fishes of the sea, which are given unto your hands.

Genesis 42:26

And they laded their asses with the corn and departed thence.

Psalm 20:7

Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 33:16-17

There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of a host; neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.

Psalm 144:14

that our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no decay, no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.

Psalm 147:10

He hath no pleasure in the strength of a horse, neither delighteth he in any man's legs.

Proverbs 14:4

Where no oxen are, there the crib is empty; but where the oxen labour there is much fruit.

Isaiah 30:6

Your beasts have born burdens upon their backs toward the South, through the way that is full of peril and trouble, because of the lion and lioness; of the Cockatrice and shooting dragon. Yea the Mules bare your substance, and the Camels brought your treasure, upon their crooked backs, unto a people that cannot help you.

Isaiah 30:16

For ye have said, "No, but we will escape through horses!" Therefore shall ye flee. And, "We will get us up upon swift beasts!" Therefore shall your persecutors be swifter.

Isaiah 31:1-3

Woe be unto them that go down into Egypt for help, and trust in horses, and comfort themselves in chariots, because they be many, and in horsemen because they be lusty and strong. But they regard not the holy one of Israel, and they ask no question at the LORD.

Isaiah 46:1

Bel is fallen, and Nebo is broken down: whose images were a burden for the beasts and cattle, to overladen them, and to make them weary.

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