'Working' in the Bible

If he's working in the north, I can't observe him; If he turns south, I can't see him.

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.

Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

And then all men will fear, and will declare the working of God, and will understand his doing.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

And I have meditated on all Thy working, And I talk concerning Thy doings.

They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.

Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

Poor is he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.

Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

She seeks out wool and flax, working with eager hands.

She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

For what does a person gain from everything that he accomplishes and from his inner life struggles that he undergoes while working on earth?

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

Sow your seed in the morning, and don't stop working until evening, since you don't know which of your endeavors will do well, whether this one or that, or even if both will do equally well.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:

This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.

The blacksmith prepares a tool and works in the coals, then fashions an idol with hammers, working by the strength of his arm. He even becomes hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint.

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.

Your builders are working faster than your destroyers, and those who devastated you go away from you.

Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.

For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.

So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.

But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter's hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.

And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.

Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.

The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile some of the poorest of the people, those who were left in the city [at the time it was captured], along with those who deserted to join the king of Babylon [during the siege] and the rest of the artisans.

Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by working unfaithfulness, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it;

And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.

Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, But -- for My holy name, That ye have polluted among nations whither ye have gone in.

Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

[He is] rescuing, delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth, for he [has] rescued Daniel from the {power} of the lions."

And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,

And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:

And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them.

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared.

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

and said to his servants, 'This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

"These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we've been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!'

'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.

So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- 'John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.

And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.

That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.

And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, 'Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'

And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?”

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.

Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death.

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

Upon their arrival they called the Church together and proceeded to report in detail all that God, working with them, had done, and how He had opened for the Gentiles the door of faith.

Upon their arrival in Jerusalem they were cordially received by the Church, the Apostles, and the Elders; and they reported in detail all that God, working with them, had done.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had news that Paul was preaching the word at Beroea, they came there, troubling the people and working them up.

and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;

mighty works also -- not common -- was God working through the hands of Paul,

In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:

For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!

I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation [from His wrath and punishment] to everyone who believes [in Christ as Savior], to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;