Psalms 127:1 A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. (WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 128:2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. (WEB ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Psalms 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. (WBS)
Proverbs 10:16 The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin. (WEB ASV WBS)
Proverbs 12:24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase. (ASV WBS NAS)
Proverbs 14:23 In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips 'tendeth' only to penury. (ASV WBS NAS)
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. (WEB ASV WBS RSV)
Proverbs 23:4 Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom. (WBS)
Ecclesiastes 1:3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun? (WEB ASV WBS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. (WBS)
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this grievous labor hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised with it. (WBS)
Ecclesiastes 2:10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 2:18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes after me. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 2:19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 2:20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. (WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun? (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. (WBS)
Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 3:10 I have seen the labor, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. (WBS)
Ecclesiastes 3:13 Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind. (WEB ASV NAS)
Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 5:14 But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. (WBS)
Ecclesiastes 5:15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. (WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. (WEB ASV WBS)
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night), (See NIV)
Ecclesiastes 8:17 then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it. (Root in WEB ASV WBS NAS)
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Ecclesiastes 10:15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city. (WEB ASV WBS)
Song of Songs 8:5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you. (WEB NAS NIV)
Isaiah 13:8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame. (WEB NAS NIV)
Isaiah 21:3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see. (WEB NAS NIV)
Isaiah 22:4 Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. (WEB ASV WBS RSV)
Isaiah 23:4 Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins. (See NIV)
Isaiah 26:17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord. (See NAS)
Isaiah 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world. (See NAS)
Isaiah 31:8 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor. (WEB NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 42:14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly. (See NAS)
Isaiah 45:14 Thus says Yahweh: "The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains; and they will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you:'Surely God is in you; and there is none else. There is no other god. (WEB ASV WBS)
Isaiah 54:1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord. (See NIV)
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. (WEB ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them. (WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV)
Isaiah 66:7 Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child. (See RSV NIV)
Isaiah 66:8 When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away. (See RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 3:24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. (WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 4:31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life. (See NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 6:24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 13:21 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? (See NIV)
Jeremiah 20:18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (WEB ASV WBS)
Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire; (See NIV)
Jeremiah 22:23 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail! (See NIV)
Jeremiah 30:6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? (See RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here. (See NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (See NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (See NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 51:58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. (WEB ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits. (See NIV)
Lamentations 3:5 He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor. (WBS)
Lamentations 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. (WBS)
Ezekiel 23:29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution. (WEB ASV WBS RSV)
Ezekiel 29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it. (See NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD. (WBS NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 48:18 The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and its increase shall be for food to those who labor in the city. (WEB ASV)
Ezekiel 48:19 Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall cultivate it. (WEB ASV)
Jonah 4:10 Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. (Root in WEB ASV WBS RSV)
Micah 4:9 Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? (See NIV)
Micah 4:10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go forth out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. (WEB ASV WBS NAS NIV)
Micah 5:3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. (WEB NAS NIV)
Habakkuk 2:13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity? (WEB ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Habakkuk 3:17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: (WEB ASV WBS)
Haggai 1:11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands." (WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)