[A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain.

For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

That our oxen may be strong to labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no outcry in our streets.

He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until evening.

He broke their spirits with hard labor;
they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

Trembling seized them there-- pain as of a woman in labor.

And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.

And he gave to them [the] lands of [the] nations, and they inherited [the] labor of [the] peoples,

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

I remember [the] days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings. I muse on the labor of your hands.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

See mine affliction and my labor, and let go to all my sins.

And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes.

Shall the throne of mischief be joined together with thee forming labor upon the law?

The head of those surrounding me, the labor of their lips shall cover them.

Behold, he labors in pain with iniquity, and he has conceived mischief, and has brought forth falsehood.

Their labors shall be multiplied after they hastened: I will not gather their libations of blood, and I will not lift up their names upon my lips.