The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

The hand of the diligent will rule,
But the negligent and lazy will be put to forced labor.

From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of {a man's labor} will return to him.

Give her the reward of her labor,
and let her works praise her at the city gates.

lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.

Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom.

Whoso is slothful and slack in his labor, is the brother of him that is a waster.