Isaiah 19:15
And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
Isaiah 9:14-15
So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day--
Psalm 128:2
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
Proverbs 14:23
In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
Haggai 1:11
And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors."
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,