Bible Verses About Industry

She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchants with sashes.

Clothed with strength and dignity, she can laugh at the days to come.

When she opens her mouth, she speaks wisely; on her tongue is loving instruction.

She watches how things go in her house, not eating the bread of idleness.

Her children arise; they make her happy; her husband too, as he praises her:

"Many women have done wonderful things, but you surpass them all!"

Charm can lie, beauty can vanish, but a woman who fears ADONAI should be praised.

Give her a share in what she produces; let her works speak her praises at the city gates.

I denied my eyes nothing they wanted. I withheld no pleasure from myself; for I took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward for all my work.

Then I looked at all that my hands had accomplished and at the work I had toiled at; and I saw that it was all meaningless and feeding on wind, and that there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

So I came to hate life, because the activities done under the sun were loathesome to me, since everything is meaningless and feeding on wind.

I hated all the things for which I had worked under the sun, because I saw that I would have to leave them to the man who will come after me.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the things I worked for and which demonstrated how wise I am under the sun. This too is pointless.

Thus I came to despair over all the things I had worked for under the sun.

Here is a man whose work is done with wisdom, knowledge and skill; yet he has to leave it to someone who has put no work into it. This is not only pointless, but a great evil.

For what does a person get from all his efforts and ambitions permeating the work he does under the sun?

Also, make it your ambition to live quietly, to mind your own business and to earn your living by your own efforts — just as we told you.

Then your daily life will gain the respect of outsiders, and you will not be dependent on anyone.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: if someone won’t work, he shouldn’t eat!

We hear that some of you are leading a life of idleness — not busy working, just busybodies!

We command such people — and in union with the Lord Yeshua the Messiah we urge them — to settle down, get to work, and earn their own living.