²⁰ And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

¹⁵ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.

¹⁶ The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

⁹ And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.

⁴⁶ Why do you say to me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

¹³ And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.