OT-PROPHET-MINOR.filter - bes labour:

bes@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

bes@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

bes@Habakkuk:3:17 @ For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall (note:)Lit. deceive(:note) fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

bes@Haggai:1:11 @ And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and all that the earth produces, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon all the labours of their hands.

bes@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye said, He that serves God (note:)Gr. is vain(:note) labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?

bes@Jdt:5:11 @ Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtilly with them, and brought them low with labouring in brick, and made them slaves.

bes@Wis:3:11 @ For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture, he is miserable, and their hope is vain, their labours unfruitful, and their works unprofitable:

bes@Wis:3:15 @ For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away.

bes@Wis:5:1 @ Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.

bes@Wis:8:7 @ And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.

bes@Wis:9:10 @ O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.

bes@Wis:9:16 @ And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?

bes@Wis:10:10 @ When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.

bes@Wis:10:17 @ Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;

bes@Wis:15:4 @ For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter’s fruitless labour;

bes@Wis:15:7 @ For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.

bes@Wis:15:8 @ And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.

bes@Wis:15:9 @ Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labour, nor that his life is short: but striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, and endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.

bes@Wis:16:20 @ Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels’ food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man’s delight, and agreeing to every taste.

bes@Wis:17:17 @ For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.

bes@Wis:17:20 @ For the whole world shined with clear light, and none were hindered in their labour:

bes@Sir:6:19 @ Come unto her as one that ploweth and soweth, and wait for her good fruits: for thou shalt not toil much in labouring about her, but thou shalt eat of her fruits right soon.

bes@Sir:10:27 @ Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.

bes@Sir:11:11 @ There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.

bes@Sir:11:21 @ Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

bes@Sir:13:26 @ A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity; and the finding out of parables is a wearisome labour of the mind.

bes@Sir:14:15 @ Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy labours to be divided by lot?

bes@Sir:16:27 @ He garnished his works for ever, and in his hand are the chief of them unto all generations: they neither labour, nor are weary, nor cease from their works.

bes@Sir:19:1 @ A labouring man that A is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

bes@Sir:19:11 @ A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.

bes@Sir:24:34 @ Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.

bes@Sir:28:15 @ A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and deprived them of their labours.

bes@Sir:30:13 @ Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence unto thee.

bes@Sir:30:17 @ Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness. Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

bes@Sir:30:25 @ If thou set thy servant to labour, thou shalt find rest: but if thou let him go idle, he shall seek liberty.

bes@Sir:30:27 @ Send him to labour, that he be not idle; for idleness teacheth much evil.

bes@Sir:31:22 @ He that taketh away his neighbour’s living slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

bes@Sir:31:23 @ When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit have they then but labour?

bes@Sir:34:3 @ The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together; and when he resteth, he is filled with his delicates.

bes@Sir:34:4 @ The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth off, he is still needy.

bes@Sir:38:25 @ How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?

bes@Sir:38:27 @ So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work:

bes@Sir:40:18 @ To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life: but he that findeth a treasure is above them both.

bes@Sir:51:27 @ Behold with your eyes, how that I have but little labour, and have gotten unto me much rest.

bes@2Macc:2:26 @ Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour of abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching;

bes@2Macc:2:28 @ Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular, and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement.

bes@2Macc:2:31 @ But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.

bes@2Macc:4:7 @ But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,

bes@3Macc:4:14 @ The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labour which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties

bes@3Macc:6:24 @ Ye have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor ye have laboured to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.

bes@4Macc:7:13 @ And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labours of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.

bes@4Macc:9:12 @ And when they had laboured hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.

bes@4Macc:16:7 @ O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labour, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.

bes@1Esd:4:22 @ By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?

bes@1Esd:5:58 @ And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and brethren, and Cadmiel his brother, and the sons of Madiabun, with the sons of Joda the son of Eliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, with one accord setters forward of the business, labouring to advance the works in the house of God. So the workmen built the temple of the Lord.