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.

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?"

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?

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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.

Additional Translations
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.

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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?'

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

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?
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