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?


In Context

3 And going about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle.

4 And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just.

5 And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

6 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?

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

8 And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.

Matthew 20:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:6"He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?'

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6But about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:6And 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?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why stand you here all the day idle?