Luke 19:22

The king ¹  said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, ²  you wicked slave! ³  So you knew, did you, that I was a severe ⁴  man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

2Sa 1:16; Job 15:5,6; Mt 12:37; Mt 22:12; Mt 25:26,27; Ro 3:19

¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).

³ tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

⁴ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”