3. Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes the stewardship away from me; I cannot dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
4. I know what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
5. So he called each one of his lord’s debtors unto him and said unto the first, How much dost thou owe unto my lord?
6. And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
7. Then said he to another, And how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty.
8. And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done discreetly; for the sons of this age are in their generation more prudent than the sons of light.