When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Matthew 20:12 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Saying, These [men] who came last worked no more than an hour, and yet you have made them rank with us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day. American Standard Version (1901) saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat. Common English Bible ‘These who were hired last worked one hour, and they received the same pay as we did even though we had to work the whole day in the hot sun.’ Catholic Public Domain Version saying, 'These last have worked for one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who worked bearing the weight and heat of the day.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. |
When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
“What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at me, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.
You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?
And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat’; and it happens.
Then what becomes of boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No, but by the law of faith.
since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless,
that is, the Gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body, and sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. It is the same way with the rich; in the midst of a busy life, they will wither away.