Judges 9:8-10

World English Bible

⁸ The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

⁹ “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

¹⁰ “The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’