Verses for the labour

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.