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'Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?' he asked them. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/matthew/20-6.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/matthew/20-6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/matthew/20-6.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/1.htm">Matthew</a> > <a href="/gntd/matthew/20.htm">Chapter 20</a> > Verse 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/20-5.htm" title="Matthew 20:5">◄</a> Matthew 20:6 <a href="../matthew/20-7.htm" title="Matthew 20:7">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/matthew/20.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/matthew/20.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/matthew/20.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />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?’<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/matthew/20.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />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?" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/matthew/20.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Going out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/matthew/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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?</p><p class="hdg">the eleventh.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/9-10.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:10</a> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/23-40.htm">Luke 23:40-43</a> But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/9-4.htm">John 9:4</a> I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.</p><p class="hdg">Why.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/19-15.htm">Proverbs 19:15</a> Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/16-49.htm">Ezekiel 16:49</a> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/17-21.htm">Acts 17:21</a> (Now all the Athenians and strangers that were there employed themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new thing.)</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/6-12.htm">Hebrews 6:12</a> That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/matthew/20.htm">The Parable of the Workers</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">5</span>And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. <span class="reftext">6</span><span class="highl">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?</span> <span class="reftext">7</span>They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/20-5.htm">Matthew 20:5</a></span><br />And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/20-7.htm">Matthew 20:7</a></span><br />They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go ye also into my vineyard.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/zechariah/1-7.htm">Eleventh</a> <a href="/matthew/16-9.htm">Five</a> <a href="/matthew/20-5.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/matthew/18-28.htm">Found</a> <a href="/matthew/20-5.htm">Hour</a> <a href="/matthew/20-3.htm">Idle</a> <a href="/matthew/20-3.htm">Loitering</a> <a href="/matthew/20-5.htm">O'clock</a> <a href="/matthew/20-4.htm">Others</a> <a href="/matthew/18-16.htm">Stand</a> <a href="/matthew/20-3.htm">Standing</a> <a href="/matthew/13-2.htm">Stood</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/20-9.htm">Eleventh</a> <a href="/matthew/20-9.htm">Five</a> <a href="/matthew/20-29.htm">Forth</a> <a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Found</a> <a href="/matthew/20-9.htm">Hour</a> <a href="/mark/7-7.htm">Idle</a> <a href="/matthew/20-3.htm">Loitering</a> <a href="/matthew/20-9.htm">O'clock</a> <a href="/matthew/21-8.htm">Others</a> <a href="/matthew/24-13.htm">Stand</a> <a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Standing</a> <a href="/matthew/20-32.htm">Stood</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/matthew/20-6.htm">Matthew 20:6 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: About all and around asked been day doing eleventh found have he here hour idle long long' nothing' others out said standing still the them to went Why you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/20-6.htm">NT Gospels: Matthew 20:6 About the eleventh hour he went out (Matt. 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