23
At the time when you end the days of your life, in the hour of death, distribute your inheritance.
24
Fodder and a stick and burdens for an ass; bread and discipline and work for a servant.
25
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
26
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked servant there are racks and tortures.
27
Put him to work, that he may not be idle, for idleness teaches much evil.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.