Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Matthew 20:6 - Modern King James Version And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all day idle? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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? |
Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
They said to him, Because no one has hired us. He said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and you shall receive whatever is right.
And when they who were hired about the eleventh hour came, they each one received a denarius.
I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else except to tell or to hear something newer.)
that you be not slothful, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.