Judges 9:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸ Once the trees searched
    for someone to be king;
they asked the olive tree,
    “Will you be our king?”
⁹ But the olive tree replied,
“My oil brings honor
    to people and gods.
I won't stop making oil,
just so my branches can wave
    above the other trees.”

¹⁰ Then they asked the fig tree,
    “Will you be our king?”