2 Kings 6:5
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New International Version (©1984)
As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. "Oh, my lord," he cried out, "it was borrowed!"

New Living Translation (©2007)
But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. "Oh, sir!" he cried. "It was a borrowed ax!"

English Standard Version (©2001)
But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
As one of them was cutting down a tree, the ax head fell into the water. He cried out, "Oh no, master! It was borrowed!"

King James Bible
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

American King James Version
But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

American Standard Version
But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.

Bible in Basic English
But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the axe fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass as one was felling a beam, that the iron fell into the water; and he cried and said, Alas, master, and it was borrowed!

English Revised Version
But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.

Webster's Bible Translation
But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

World English Bible
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the iron hath fallen into the water, and he crieth and saith, 'Alas! my lord, and it asked!'

Geneva Study Bible

But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

King James Translators' Notes

axe head: Heb. iron

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. it was borrowed-literally, "begged." The scholar's distress arose from the consideration that it had been presented to him; and that, owing to his poverty, he could not procure another.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-7 There is that pleasantness in the converse of servants of God, which can make those who listen to them forget the pain and the weariness of labour. Even the sons of the prophets must not be unwilling to labour. Let no man think an honest employment a burden or a disgrace. And labour of the head, is as hard, and very often harder, than labour with the hands. We ought to be careful of that which is borrowed, as of our own, because we must do as we would be done by. This man was so respecting the axe-head. And to those who have an honest mind, the sorest grievance of poverty is, not so much their own want and disgrace, as being rendered unable to pay just debts. But the Lord cares for his people in their smallest concerns. And God's grace can thus raise the stony iron heart, which is sunk into the mud of this world, and raise up affections, naturally earthly.


2 Kings 6:4 So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
2 Kings 6:6 Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float. (NASB ©1995)

Alas Another's Ax Axe Bad Beam Board Borrowed Business Cried Crieth Cry Cutting Fallen Fell Head Iron Log Master Tree Water


But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

axe head [heb] iron Ec 10:10 Isa 10:34

Alas, master 2Ki 6:15 3:10 Re 18:10,16,19

for it was borrowed 2Ki 4:7 Ex 22:14,15 Ps 37:21

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