In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips {tendeth} only to penury.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be}, and {it shall be} well with thee.

And it came to pass in those days, when {there was} no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah. {a concubine: Heb. a woman a concubine, or, a wife a concubine}

Wealth {gotten} by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. {by labour: Heb. with the hand}

And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them {when they were} by Gibeah, which {belongeth} to Benjamin.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all {things} that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {to be...: or, to afflict them}

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

The sleep of a labouring man {is} sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with {his} hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. {to give: or, to distribute}

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou {art}, and unto dust shalt thou return.

They have deeply corrupted {themselves}, as in the days of Gibeah: {therefore} he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also {was} Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.