Afterward he said to another, And how much owest thou? Which answered, An hundred cors [or measures] of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy letters, and write fourscore.
But that servant went out, and found one of his even-servants, that owed him an hundred pence; and he held him, and strangled him, and said, Yield that that thou owest.
And the lord praised the bailiff [or the farmer] of wickedness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent in their generation, than the sons of light.