NET

19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!

Darby

19 When thou shalt besiege a city many days, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by lifting up an axe against them; for thou canst eat of them; and thou shalt not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a man that it should be besieged^D1300?

Darby Bible Notes

besieged - Others, 'not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's [life]), to employ them in the siege.'

KJV

19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:

KJV Bible Notes

for the tree of the field mans life: Or, for, O man the tree of the field is to be employed in the seige. to employ them: Heb. to go from before thee.