1 En Hy het ook aan hulle 'n gelykenis vertel met die oog daarop dat 'n mens gedurig moet bid en nie moedeloos word nie,

2 en gesê: Daar was 'n regter in 'n stad wat God nie gevrees en geen mens ontsien het nie.

3 En daar was in daardie stad 'n weduwee, en sy het gedurig na hom gekom en gesê: Doen reg aan my teenoor my teëparty.

4 En 'n tyd lank wou hy nie; maar daarna het hy by homself gesê: Al vrees ek God ook nie en al ontsien ek geen mens nie,

5 tog sal ek, omdat hierdie weduwee my moeite gee, aan haar reg doen, sodat sy nie eindelik kom en my in die gesig slaan nie.

6 Toe sê die Here: Hoor wat die onregverdige regter sê.

7 Sal God dan nie reg doen aan sy uitverkorenes wat dag en nag tot Hom roep nie, al is Hy ook lankmoedig in hulle geval?

8 Ek sê vir julle dat Hy gou aan hulle reg sal doen; maar as die Seun van die mens kom, sal Hy wel die geloof op die aarde vind?

1 And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

2 Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:

3 And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.

4 And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

5 Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.

6 And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.

7 And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

8 I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?