Psalm 50:13
 Psalm 50:13 
New International Version (©2011)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

English Standard Version (©2001)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Why should I eat the flesh of oxen or drink the blood of goats?

NET Bible (©2006)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
I do not eat the flesh of calves or drink the blood of goats.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do I eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

American King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

American Standard Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Darby Bible Translation
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?

English Revised Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Webster's Bible Translation
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

World English Bible
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Young's Literal Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

50:7-15 To obey is better than sacrifice, and to love God and our neighbour better than all burnt-offerings. We are here warned not to rest in these performances. And let us beware of resting in any form. God demands the heart, and how can human inventions please him, when repentance, faith, and holiness are neglected? In the day of distress we must apply to the Lord by fervent prayer. Our troubles, though we see them coming from God's hand, must drive us to him, not drive us from him. We must acknowledge him in all our ways, depend upon his wisdom, power, and goodness, and refer ourselves wholly to him, and so give him glory. Thus must we keep up communion with God; meeting him with prayers under trials, and with praises in deliverances. A believing supplicant shall not only be graciously answered as to his petition, and so have cause for praising God, but shall also have grace to praise him.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? But is it to be supposed, can any suppose it possible, that I, the Lord of heaven and earth, the invisible Author of all things, both visible and invisible, can need material sustenance, and can condescend to find any sustenance in bulls' flesh and goats' blood? Scarcely did even the grossest of the heathen take this view. A vapour, an odour (κνίσση), was thought to ascend from the victims sacrificed, and this penetrated to the Olympian abodes, and gratified, or, as some would say, "fed" the gods. But such coarse feeding as that suggested in the text was hardly imagined by any, unless it were by utter savages and barbarians.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? That is, express a pleasure, take delight and satisfaction, in such kind of sacrifices, which can never take away sin: no, I will not; wherefore other sacrifices, more agreeable to his nature, mind, and will, and to the Gospel dispensation, are next mentioned.


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The Mighty One Calls
12If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. 13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High: …

Psalm 50:9 I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
Psalm 69:31 This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves.