NET Bible
"Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’"
— Luke 19:23, NET Bible
“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”
“then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest? ”
“Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'”
“And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?”
“Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?”
“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”
Then another slave came and said,‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.
For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’
And he said to his attendants,‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’
But they said to him,‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’
‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.