Quotes About Work

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.

as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.í”

This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.

Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!

“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,

But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work! For I am with you, declares the LORD of Hosts.

Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

He will say, ëI am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.í