Quotes about Labor
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 8:15
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.
- Ecclesiastes 10:9
The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
- Ecclesiastes 10:15
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
- Isaiah 3:10
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
- Isaiah 13:8
On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
- Isaiah 14:3
The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
- Isaiah 19:10
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
- Isaiah 21:3
Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
- Isaiah 23:4
“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 31:8