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Bishop's Bible

Psalms 50:12

If I be hungry, I wyll not tell thee: for the whole worlde is myne, and all that is therin.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   Formalism;   Offerings;   Quotations and Allusions;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burnt Offering, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Consecrate, Consecration;   Firstborn;   Wealth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If I were hungry, I would not tell you,for the world and everything in it is mine.
Hebrew Names Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.
King James Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
English Standard Version
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
New Century Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, because the earth and everything in it are mine.
New English Translation
Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.
Amplified Bible
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world and all it contains are Mine.
New American Standard Bible
"If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and everything it contains.
World English Bible
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.
Legacy Standard Bible
If I were hungry I would not tell you,For the world is Mine, as well as its fullness.
Berean Standard Bible
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
Contemporary English Version
If I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you, because I own the world and everything in it.
Complete Jewish Bible
If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.
Darby Translation
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Easy-to-Read Version
If I were hungry, I would not ask you for food. I already own the world and everything in it.
George Lamsa Translation
If I were hungry, I should not tell you; for the world is mine and the fulness thereof.
Good News Translation
"If I were hungry, I would not ask you for food, for the world and everything in it is mine.
Lexham English Bible
If I were hungry I would not tell you, because the world and its fullness are mine.
Literal Translation
if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf I be hongrie, I wil not tell the: for ye whole worlde is myne, and all that therin is.
American Standard Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Bible in Basic English
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
King James Version (1611)
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.
English Revised Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If Y schal be hungry, Y schal not seie to thee; for the world and the fulnesse therof is myn.
Update Bible Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
Webster's Bible Translation
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof.
New King James Version
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
New Living Translation
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.
New Life Bible
If I were hungry, I would not tell you. For the world is Mine, and all that is in it.
New Revised Standard
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all that is in it is mine.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-12) If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Revised Standard Version
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
Young's Literal Translation
If I am hungry I tell not to thee, For Mine [is] the world and its fulness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

Contextual Overview

7 Heare O my people, and I wil speake: I my selfe wyll testifie vnto thee O Israel, I am the Lorde, euen thy Lorde. 8 I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerynges: [for that they be not] alway before me. 9 I wyll take no bullocke out of thy house: nor goates out of thy foldes. 10 For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles. 11 I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes: and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement. 12 If I be hungry, I wyll not tell thee: for the whole worlde is myne, and all that is therin. 13 Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates? 14 Offer vnto God prayse: and pay thy vowes vnto the most hyghest. 15 And call vpon me in the tyme of trouble: I wyll heare thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

world: Psalms 24:1, Psalms 24:2, Psalms 115:15, Psalms 115:16, Exodus 19:5, Deuteronomy 10:14, Job 41:11, 1 Corinthians 10:26-28

fulness: Psalms 104:24, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 145:16, Genesis 1:11, Genesis 1:12, Genesis 1:28-30, Genesis 8:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:29 - that the earth Deuteronomy 33:16 - the earth Psalms 89:11 - General Jeremiah 47:2 - all that is therein Amos 6:8 - all that is therein Micah 1:2 - all that therein is

Cross-References

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy dayes may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee.
Acts 7:16
And were caryed ouer into Sichem, and layde in the sepulchre, that Abraha bought for money of the sonnes of Emor, the sonne of Sichem.
Ephesians 6:1
Chyldren, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lorde: for this is ryght.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee,.... Or "say to thee" w; ask for anything

for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof; with which, was the former his case, he could satisfy himself; see Psalms 24:1.

w לא אמר לך "non dicam tibi", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus; "non dicerem tibi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee - I should not have occasion to apply to you; I should not be dependent on you.

For the world is mine - The earth; all that has been created.

And the fulness thereof - All that fills the world; all that exists upon it. The whole is at his disposal; to all that the earth produces he has a right. This language is used to show the absurdity of the supposition that he was in any way dependent on man, or that the offering of sacrifice could be supposed in any way to lay him under obligation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:12. The world is mine, and the fulness thereof. — Ye cannot, therefore, give me any thing that is not my own.


 
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