Quotes about Work
What does the worker gain from his toil?
— Ecclesiastes 3:9
and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labor—this is the gift of God.
— Ecclesiastes 3:13
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
— Ecclesiastes 3:22
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 4:6
This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
— Ecclesiastes 5:16
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
— Ecclesiastes 5:18
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
— Ecclesiastes 6:7
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
— Ecclesiastes 7:13
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
— Ecclesiastes 8:17
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
— Ecclesiastes 9:10
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
— Ecclesiastes 10:18
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
— Isaiah 5:12