Isaiah 28:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

New Living Translation
Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?

English Standard Version
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

Berean Study Bible
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

New American Standard Bible
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and break up his ground?

NASB 1995
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

NASB 1977
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

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

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

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

Contemporary English Version
Farmers don't just plow and break up the ground.

Good News Translation
Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Does a farmer go on plowing every day so he can plant? Does he continue to break up the soil and make furrows in the ground?

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

NET Bible
Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

New King James Version
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

King James 2000 Bible
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?

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

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

American King James Version
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?

English Revised Version
Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually open and break the clods of his ground?

Webster's Bible Translation
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Doeth the plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he open, and breake the clots of his ground?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Doth not the husbandman plowe all the day, and openeth and breaketh the clottes of his grounde, that he may sowe?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Goeth not the husbonde man euer in due season earnestly to his londe? he moweth & ploweth his grounde to sowe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Does the plowman plow the whole day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground!

Young's Literal Translation
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!

Smith's Literal Translation
Shall he ploughing, plough all the day to sow? shall he open and level his earth?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Does a farmer plough all day to sow and turn over and break up his ground?

Lamsa Bible
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and harrow his ground?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, With the opening and harrowing of his ground?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
















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