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1 Kings 11:28
And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.

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1 Kings 11:27
The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;

1 Kings 12:2
And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

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Proverbs 22:29
Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

Proverbs 12:24
The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

Proverbs 10:4
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

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Genesis 31:40
This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

Ruth 2:17
So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.

Nehemiah 4:21
So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.

Proverbs 31:27
She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

1 Corinthians 4:12
And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;

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