Habakkuk 2:13
See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
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Habakkuk 2:13
See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
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Job 39:16
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
Isaiah 49:4
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
Isaiah 65:23
Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
Galatians 4:11
I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.
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Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 10:15
The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
Isaiah 5:18
Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
Isaiah 41:6
They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!
Isaiah 41:7
So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
Isaiah 44:12
The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Isaiah 50:11
See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?
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Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!
Habakkuk 2:7
Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?
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Habakkuk 2:16
You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.
Habakkuk 2:17
For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.
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