Matthew 20:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'

New Living Translation
“At five o’clock that afternoon he was in town again and saw some more people standing around. He asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’

English Standard Version
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’

Berean Study 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.

New American Standard Bible
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’

NASB 1995
"And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all day long?'

NASB 1977
“And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’

Amplified Bible
And about the eleventh hour (5:00 p.m.) he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’

Christian Standard Bible
Then about five he went and found others standing around and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing? ’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then about five he went and found others standing around, and said to them, Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?'

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?"

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
About 5 p.m. he went out and found some others standing around. He said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day long without work?'

International Standard Version
About five o'clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, 'Why are you standing here all day long without work?'

NET Bible
And about five o'clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day without work?'
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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?

New King James Version
And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’

King James 2000 Bible
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, Why stand you here all the day idle?

New Heart English Bible
About five that afternoon he went out, and found others standing. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

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?'

American King James Version
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why stand you here all the day idle?

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?

A Faithful Version
And about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all the day?'

Darby Bible 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?

English Revised 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?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he went about the eleuenth houre, and found other standing idle, & sayd vnto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And about the eleuenth houre, he wet out, and founde other standyng idle, and saide vnto them: why stande ye here all the day idle?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And aboute the eleuenth houre he wete out, and founde other stodynge ydle, and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydle?

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And he went out aboute the eleventhe houre and founde other stondynge ydell and sayde vnto them: Why stonde ye here all the daye ydell?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle and says to them, Why have you stood here idle all day?

Berean Literal Bible
And about the eleventh having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, 'Why do you stand here all the day idle?'

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?

Smith's Literal Translation
And about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why stand ye here idle the whole day?

Literal Emphasis Translation
And about the eleventh, having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why do you stand here all day idle?

Catholic Translations
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?

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?’

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And towards the 11th hour he went out and he found others who were standing and were idle, and he said to them, 'Why are you standing and are idle all day?'

Lamsa Bible
And towards the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and he said to them, Why do you stand all day idle?

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here all the day idle?

Godbey New Testament
And about the eleventh hour having gone out, he found others standing; and says to them, Why stand ye here idle all the day?

Haweis New Testament
But about the eleventh hour, going out, he found others standing unemployed, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Mace New Testament
at last, about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, why do you stand idling thus all day long?

Weymouth New Testament
And going out about five o'clock he found others loitering, and he asked them, "'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

Worrell New Testament
And about the eleventh hour, going forth, he found others standing, and he says to them, 'Why stand ye here all the day idle?'

Worsley New Testament
And going out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing without work, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day doing nothing?
















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