15 Won’t you leave your labors to another, and your toils be divided by lot? (WEB)
Sirach 14:15
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Proverbs 5:9–11
9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel; 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner. 11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Job 31:7–9
7 If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands, 8 then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted. 9 If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
2 Esdras 16:24–26
24 There will be no farmer left to cultivate the earth or to sow it. (WEB) 25 The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? (WEB) 26 The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; (WEB)
Sirach 33:22–24
22 For it is better that your children should ask from you than that you should look to the hand of your children. (WEB) 23 Excel in all your works. Don’t bring a stain on your honor. (WEB) 24 In the day that you end the days of your life, in the time of death, distribute your inhe… (WEB)
Sirach 11:22–24
22 The Lord’s blessing is in the reward of the godly. He makes his blessing flourish in an hour that comes swiftly. (WEB) 23 Don’t say, “What use is there of me? What further good things can be mine?” (WEB) 24 Don’t say, “I have enough. What harm could happen to me now?” (WEB)
2 Esdras 6:58–59
58 But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only children, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands. (WEB) 59 Now if the world is made for our sakes, why don’t we possess our world for an inheritance? How long will this endure?” (WEB)
Job 7:1–2
1 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? 2 Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
1 Samuel 30:23–25
23 But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us. 24 Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share…
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