Ecclesiastes 4:5

Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

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Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Ecclesiastes 7:17
Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

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Proverbs 12:27
The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Proverbs 24:33
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

Proverbs 24:34
so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.

Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

Ecclesiastes 10:18
By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

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Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

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Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly,

Ephesians 5:31
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife. Then the two will become one flesh.”

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