World English Bible
"Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'"
— Luke 19:23, World English 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? ”
“Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’”
“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?”
Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'
"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'
"They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.