Contemporary English Version
The manager said to himself, "What shall I do now that my master is going to fire me? I can't dig ditches, and I'm ashamed to beg.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

said.

Luke 18:4 And he would not for a long time. But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God nor regard man,

Esther 6:6 And when he was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to the man whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking in his heart, and supposing that the king would honour no other but himself,

What.

Luke 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

Isaiah 10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Hosea 9:5 What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord?

Acts 9:6 And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

I cannot.

Proverbs 13:4 The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns: the way of the just is without offence.

Proverbs 18:9 He that is loose and slack in his work, is the brother of him that wasteth his own works.

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

Proverbs 21:25,26 Desires kill the slothful: for his hands have refused to work at all. . . .

Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man: . . .

Proverbs 26:13-16 The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads. . . .

Proverbs 27:23-27 Be diligent to know the countenance of thy cattle, and consider thy own flocks: . . .

Proverbs 29:21 He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: working not at all, but curiously meddling.

to beg.

Luke 16:20,22 And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, . . .

Proverbs 20:4 Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Mark 10:46 And they came to Jericho. And as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by the way side begging.

John 9:8 The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.

Acts 3:2 And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.