Luke 13:8

13:8 But the worker ¹  answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer ²  on it.

Luke 16:3

16:3 Then ³  the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position ⁴  away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, ⁵  and I’m too ashamed ⁶  to beg.

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¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the worker who tended the vineyard) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “toss manure [on it].” This is a reference to manure used as fertilizer.

³ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events in the parable.

⁴ tn Grk “the stewardship,” “the management.”

⁵ tn Here “dig” could refer (1) to excavation (“dig ditches,” L&N 19.55) or (2) to agricultural labor (“work the soil,” L&N 43.3). In either case this was labor performed by the uneducated, so it would be an insult as a job for a manager.

⁶ tn Grk “I do not have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.”

sn To beg would represent a real lowering of status for the manager, because many of those whom he had formerly collected debts from, he would now be forced to beg from.