Quotes about Ownership
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
- Proverbs 5:10
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
- Proverbs 5:15
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
- Proverbs 5:17
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
- Proverbs 22:27
I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,
- Ecclesiastes 2:7
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
- Ecclesiastes 5:11
There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
- Ecclesiastes 5:13
My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 2:16
I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 6:3
But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
- Song of Solomon 8:12
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Isaiah 1:3