Isaiah 28:24
ContextNET © | Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? 1 Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground? |
NIV © | When a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? |
NASB © | Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground? |
NLT © | Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting it? |
MSG © | Do farmers plow and plow and do nothing but plow? Or harrow and harrow and do nothing but harrow? |
BBE © | Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed? |
NRSV © | Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground? |
NKJV © | Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods? |
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NET © | Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? 1 Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground? |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם. |