Quotes About Labor

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain.

Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of othersí labor,

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.