Thematic Bible: Toil
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Toil
The husbandman, in order to receive the fruits, must first work hard.
Toil » Worldly, sometimes disappointing
At last I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and sore travail.
Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
And this also is a sore evil; that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he that has laboured for the wind?
Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.
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