Matthew 20:6
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
In context
4 ‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you whatever is right.’
5 So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
6 About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
7 ‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. So he told them, ‘You also go into my vineyard.’
8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
Matthew 20:6 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’ he asked.
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- WEB World English Bible
- About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?
- DBY Darby Translation
- But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?