Judges 9:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ “Yet the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop making oil, by which God and men are honored, to go and sway over the trees?’

¹⁰ “So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and rule over us.’

¹¹ “Yet the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I stop making my sweet aroma and my fruit, to go and sway over the trees?’