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.
Labour
Because
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.