'Industry' in the Bible
This is to give the king word that we went into the land of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is made of great stones, and has its walls supported with wood, and the work is going on with industry, and they are doing it well.
He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.
Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,You merchants of Sidon;Your messengers crossed the sea
He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that, should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that he may have something of which he can give the needy a share.
‘I know your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;