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.
Cross References
Matthew 20:5So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.
Matthew 20:7Because no one has hired us,' they answered. So he told them, 'You also go into my vineyard.'
Treasury of Scripture
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?
the eleventh.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Luke 23:40-43
But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? …
John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while 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 thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Acts 17:21
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)