Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul will suffer hunger.
Matthew 20:6 - Y'all Version Bible About five in the afternoon, he went out and found others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why do you stand here all day without work?’ 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? |
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul will suffer hunger.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
“‘“Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, abundance of bread, and prosperous ease, but they didn’t support the hand of the poor and needy.
So they went. He went out again around noon and near three in three in the afternoon and did the same thing.
“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘Y’all go and work in my vineyard also.’
“When those who were hired at five in the afternoon came, they each received a denarius.
I must work the works of ʜɪᴍ who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking and listening to something new.)
so that y’all won’t become sluggish, but be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.