Thematic Bible: Toil


Thematic Bible




But when I considered all the works that my hands had wrought, and all the labours that I had taken therein: Lo, all was vanity and vexation of mind, and nothing of any value under the Sun. Verse ConceptsAchievementPhysical LabourdissatisfactionUseless EndeavourUnder The SunSuccess And Hard Work

Wherefore do ye lay out your money, for the thing that feedeth not, and spend your labour about the thing that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather unto me, and ye shall eat of the best, and your soul shall have her pleasure in plenteousness. Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodemptinessdissatisfactionPleasurePhysical LabourUnprofitable SinsBeing UnsatisfiedBuying FoodNo FoodPay Attention To God!FinancesMoney Blessingsenergy

There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing. Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends


For what else hath a man, of all the labor that he taketh under the Sun? Verse ConceptsPhysical LabourToiling In VainUnder The SunQuestioning Life

Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind. Verse ConceptsVanityPhysical LabourStraight ThingsUseless EndeavourFrustrationUnder The SunTime PassingSunexploringstrivingFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind? Verse ConceptsBad SituationsPhysical LabourLife And DeathTragedy

Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost? Verse ConceptsFutilityPhysical LabourBurning CitiesUseless LabourToiling In VainCaused By God