"So gonow[and] work;for you will be givennostraw,yet you must deliverthe quotaof bricks."
Whereasmy fatherloadedyou with a heavyyoke,I will addto your yoke;my fatherdisciplinedyou with whips,but I [will discipline you] with scorpions.'"
But he said,"You are lazy,[very] lazy;thereforeyou say,'Let us go[and] sacrificeto the LORD.'
The foremenof the sonsof Israelsawthat they were in troublebecause they were told,"You must not reduce[your] dailyamountof bricks."
Then I lookedagainat allthe actsof oppressionwhichwere being doneunderthe sun.And behold[I saw] the tearsof the oppressedand [that] they hadnooneto comfort[them]; and on the sideof their oppressorswas power,but they hadnooneto comfort[them].
"As for his father,becausehe practicedextortion,robbed[his] brotherand didwhatwas not goodamonghis people,behold,he will diefor his iniquity.
