New Revised Standard Version
Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds, to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

Contemporary English Version
Reuben, why did you stay among your sheep pens? Was it to listen to shepherds whistling for their sheep? No one could figure out why Reuben wouldn't come.

New American Bible
Why did you stay beside your hearths listening to the lowing of the herds? Among the clans of Reuben great were the searchings of heart!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.

Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.

sheepfolds

Numbers 32:1-5,24 And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for feeding cattle, . . .

Philippians 2:21 For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's.

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

for, or in

Judges 5:15 The captains of Issachar were with Debbora, and followed the steps of Barac, who exposed himself to danger, as one going headlong, and into a pit. Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.

great

Psalm 4:4 Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be sorry for them upon your beds.

Psalm 77:6 And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was exercised and I swept my spirit.

Lamentations 3:40,41 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. . . .