Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Bible References

Labour

Ecclesiastes 10:3
And also as the foolish one went in the way, his heart was wanting, and he said to all, It is folly.
Isaiah 44:12
The workman of iron with an axe also worked with coal, and he will cleave it with hammers, and will work with the arm of his strength: also he hungered and no strength: he drank not water and was wearied.
Isaiah 47:12
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries in which thou didst labor from thy youth; perhaps thou wilt be able to be of use, perhaps thou wilt cause fear.
Isaiah 55:2
Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.
Isaiah 57:1
The just one perished and none put upon the heart: men of kindness being taken away, for none understanding that the just one was taken away from the face of evil
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not these all of them lift up a parable against him, and an enigma of an oracle against him, and it shall be said, Wo! to him multiplying that not to him. how long making heavy upon him goods taken in pledge?
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest.

Because

Psalm 107:4
They will wander in the desert in a waste; the way of a city of dwelling they found not
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway was there, and a way, and it shall be called to it, A way of holiness; the unclean one shall not pass through it; and it is for them; he going the way, and the foolish shall not err.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God.