Matthew 20:6
Good News Translation
It was nearly five o'clock when he went to the marketplace and saw some other men still standing there. 'Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?' he asked them.

New Revised Standard Version
And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, ‘Why are you standing here idle all day?’

Contemporary English Version
Finally, about five in the afternoon the man went back and found some others standing there. He asked them, "Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?"

New American Bible
Going out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

the eleventh.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Luke 23:40-43 But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation? . . .

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Why.

Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Ezekiel 16:49 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor.

Acts 17:21 (Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)

Hebrews 6:12 That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.

Context
The Parable of the Workers
5And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. 6But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? 7They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.…
Cross References
Matthew 20:5
And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

Matthew 20:7
They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.

Matthew 20:5
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