Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Matthew 20:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And about the eleventh hour (five o'clock) he went out and found still others standing around, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all day? American Standard Version (1901) And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? Common English Bible Around five in the afternoon he went and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why are you just standing around here doing nothing all day long?’ Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing, and he said to them, 'Why have you stood here idle all day?' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? |
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.)
that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.