'Work' in the Bible

How then to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, because they have increased.

Remember that thou magnify his work, which men celebrate.

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse sheweth the work of his hands.

Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

For the word of Jehovah is right, and all his work is in faithfulness.

{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, and be not envious of them that work unrighteousness;

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

And unto thee, O Lord, belongeth loving-kindness; for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and they shall wisely consider his work.

And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

And I will meditate upon all thy work, and muse upon thy doings.

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.

And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:

Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening.

His work is majesty and splendour, and his righteousness abideth for ever.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

It is time for Jehovah to work: they have made void thy law.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

I remember the days of old: I meditate on all thy doing; I muse on the work of thy hands.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

The just balance and scales are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are his work.

He also who is indolent in his work is brother of the destroyer.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.

The desire of the sluggard killeth him; for his hands refuse to work:

Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, will not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that preserveth thy soul, he knoweth it; and he rendereth to man according to his work.

Prepare thy work without, and put thy field in order, and afterwards build thy house.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work.

And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.

And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

He hath made everything beautiful in its time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that man findeth not out from the beginning to the end the work that God doeth.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.

Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.

How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.

And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them.

And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.

And harp and lyre, tambour and flute, and wine are in their banquets; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, nor do they see the operation of his hands.

who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutness of heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.

And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white stuffs shall be ashamed.

Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunkard staggereth in his vomit.

Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance!

For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.

Oh your perverseness! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

for when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall hallow my name, and hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

Yea, since the day was, I am HE, and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.

And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; nevertheless my judgment is with Jehovah, and my work with my God.

Behold, it is I who have created the smith that bloweth in the fire of coal, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the destroyer to ravage.

Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall possess the land for ever the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and outraged me upon the hills; and I will measure their former work into their bosom.

they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful men.

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

and carry forth no burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers,

And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

And I went down to the potter's house; and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

And go not after other gods, to serve them and to worship them; and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

But ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your own hurt.

For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for there is a reward for thy work, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have been doing only evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.

Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood!

Jehovah hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for this is a work for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans.

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those that bend the bow: encamp against her round about; let there be no escaping: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;

The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!