So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.’ Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’
Kwa hiyo akawaita kwake na kumwambia, ‘Ni nini hili ninayosikia juu yako? Nipe uhasibu wa usimamizi wako, kwa sababu huwezi kuwa meneja wangu tena. ‘Kisha meneja akawaza moyoni mwake,’ Nitafanya nini, sasa kwamba bwana wangu ni kuchukua nafasi ya mbali na mimi? Sina nguvu za kulima, na ninaona aibu kuombaomba. Nimeamua nini cha kufanya ili, wakati mimi ni kufukuzwa kazi kama meneja, watu wanaweza wanikaribishe nyumbani kwao. ‘