Judges 9:9-11

Revised Geneva Translation

⁹ “But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my fatness with which they honor God and man and go to advance above the trees?’

¹⁰ “Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come! Be king over us!’

¹¹ “But the fig tree answered them, ‘Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to advance above the trees?’