and said, “My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the street.”
Song of Solomon 5:3 - Revised Standard Version I had put off my garment, how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet, how could I soil them? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have put off my coat; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; How shall I defile them? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [But weary from a day in the vineyards, I had already sought my rest] I had put off my garment–how could I [again] put it on? I had washed my feet–how could I [again] soil them? [Isa. 32:9; Heb. 3:15.] American Standard Version (1901) I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? Common English Bible “I have taken off my tunic— why should I put it on again? I have bathed my feet— why should I get them dirty?” Catholic Public Domain Version Bride: I sleep, yet my heart watches. The voice of my beloved knocking: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? |
and said, “My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the street.”
The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”
Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.
and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’?