Quotes about Responsibility
Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
— Ecclesiastes 8:2
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
— Ecclesiastes 8:11
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
— Ecclesiastes 10:18
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
— Ecclesiastes 12:13
Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
— Song of Solomon 1:6
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
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
— Isaiah 1:12
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
— Isaiah 1:23
“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
— Isaiah 3:4
A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
— Isaiah 3:6
On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
— Isaiah 3:7
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
— Isaiah 3:14