20:11

On receiving their pay: The words their pay refer to the single coin that the workers received as their wages.

Here are some other ways to translate this clause:

When they received their pay (New Living Translation (2004))
-or-
When they got their coin (New Century Version)

they began to grumble against: The Greek verb that the Berean Standard Bible translates as grumble means talked quietly and expressed unhappiness about something. In Greek, the form of this verb indicates that this grumbling started and was continuing.

The word translated as against also means “at.”

Here are some other ways to translate this clause:

they began complaining to (Contemporary English Version)
-or-
they started criticizing

the landowner: This phrase translates the same Greek word as in 20:1a. You should translate it here as you did there.

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