Ecclesiastes 4:5

Ecclesiastes 4:5
The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

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Job 3:10
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

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Job 18:4
But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

Proverbs 1:32
For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

Ecclesiastes 7:17
Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

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Proverbs 12:27
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

Proverbs 13:4
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

Proverbs 20:4
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

Proverbs 24:33
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

Proverbs 24:34
So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

Proverbs 26:16
The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

Ecclesiastes 10:18
When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

Matthew 25:26
But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

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Ecclesiastes 2:8
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Romans 1:31
Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

Ephesians 5:31
For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

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