The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.


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Haggai 1 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Isaiah 45 9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Ecclesiastes 6 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Matthew 10 10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Job 34 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Ecclesiastes 10 10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Exodus 21 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
Proverbs 10 4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
1 Kings 19 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
Proverbs 16 26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Luke 15 17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Judges 14 14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
2 Kings 4 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
Isaiah 44 16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
Job 41 31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Daniel 2 41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
Habakkuk 2 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Proverbs 23 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 17 3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Romans 14 2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Matthew 15 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Romans 9 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Job 21 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Isaiah 54 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Exodus 12 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Isaiah 47 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Proverbs 12 27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Psalms 22 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Matthew 25 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Proverbs 27 21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
Exodus 21 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
Ecclesiastes 2 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Genesis 24 33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Job 2 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Jeremiah 23 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Genesis 31 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
Isaiah 44 15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Romans 12 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Revelation 2 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Isaiah 48 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Ecclesiastes 4 5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Proverbs 27 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Matthew 5 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
James 2 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Psalms 32 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
1 Chronicles 22 14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
Isaiah 8 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Isaiah 1 31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Job 5 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Ezekiel 15 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?