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OET (OET-LV) And having_called him, he_said to_him:
What is this I_am_hearing concerning you?
Give_back the account of_the management of_you, because/for you_are_ not _being_able anymore to_be_managing.
OET (OET-RV) so the owner called him and asked, ‘What’s this I’m hearing about you? Give back the ledgers because I don’t want you as a manager any more.’
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
καὶ
and
Jesus uses the word And to introduce the results of what the previous sentence described. Alternate translation (as in UST): “So”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
φωνήσας αὐτὸν
/having/_called him
The pronoun he refers to the rich man, and him refers to the manager. Alternate translation: “the rich man called the manager”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
εἶπεν αὐτῷ, τί τοῦτο ἀκούω περὶ σοῦ? ἀπόδος τὸν λόγον τῆς οἰκονομίας σου; οὐ γὰρ δύνῃ ἔτι οἰκονομεῖν
˱he˲_said ˱to˲_him what_‹is› this ˱I˲_/am/_hearing concerning you give_back the account ˱of˲_the management ˱of˲_you not for ˱you˲_/are/_being_able anymore /to_be/_managing
If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “told him that he had been hearing bad things about him and that he needed to turn over his financial records, since he would not be the manager any more”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί τοῦτο ἀκούω περὶ σοῦ?
what_‹is› this ˱I˲_/am/_hearing concerning you
The rich man is not looking for information. He is using the question form to scold the manager. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “I have heard what you are doing!”
ἀπόδος τὸν λόγον τῆς οἰκονομίας σου
give_back the account ˱of˲_the management ˱of˲_you
Alternate translation: “Turn over your financial records” or “Set your records in order to pass on to someone else”
οὐ γὰρ δύνῃ ἔτι οἰκονομεῖν
not for ˱you˲_/are/_being_able anymore /to_be/_managing
Alternate translation: “since you cannot be my financial manager any longer”
16:2 Get your report in order: This financial statement was probably for the benefit of the manager’s successor.
OET (OET-LV) And having_called him, he_said to_him:
What is this I_am_hearing concerning you?
Give_back the account of_the management of_you, because/for you_are_ not _being_able anymore to_be_managing.
OET (OET-RV) so the owner called him and asked, ‘What’s this I’m hearing about you? Give back the ledgers because I don’t want you as a manager any more.’
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.