Moffatt(i)
42 Keep on the watch then, for you never know what day your Lord will come.
43 But be sure of this, that if the householder had known at what watch in the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
44 So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
45 Now where is the trusty and thoughtful servant, whom his lord and master has set over his household to assign them their supplies at the proper time?
46 Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!
47 I tell you truly, he will set him over all his property.
48 But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'
49 and if he starts to beat his fellow-servants and to eat and drink with drunkards,
50 that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know;
51 he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.