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
Even when the fool walks along the road, he lacks sense; he tells everyone [that] he is a fool.
Isaiah 44:12
[The] {ironsmith} works in the coals [with his] tool and forms it with hammers. And he makes it with {his strong arm}; indeed, he becomes hungry, and {he lacks} strength; he does not drink water, and he is faint.
Isaiah 47:12
Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may {scare away}.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you weigh out money for [what is] not food, and your labor for {what cannot satisfy}? Listen carefully to me, and eat [what is] good, and let your soul take pleasure in {rich} food.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous [one] perishes, and there is no one who takes [it] to heart. And men of faithfulness [are] gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all [of you] who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

Because

Psalm 107:4
They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.
Isaiah 35:8
And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. [The] unclean shall not travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time,'" {declares} Yahweh, "the people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. {Weeping as they go}, they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.