In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.


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Genesis 14 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis 37 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
Genesis 43 21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
Genesis 43 22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
Exodus 5 9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus 5 11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Exodus 11 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and jewels of gold.
Exodus 12 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus 21 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
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;
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.
Exodus 22 7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
Exodus 22 14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Exodus 23 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Exodus 31 4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
Leviticus 19 9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
Leviticus 19 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Leviticus 25 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
Leviticus 25 47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
Deuteronomy 8 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 28 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Joshua 9 4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Judges 5 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
2 Kings 12 11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
2 Kings 12 15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings 22 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
1 Chronicles 22 15 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
Nehemiah 5 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah 5 7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Esther 3 9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Esther 7 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Job 2 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Job 4 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5 16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 7 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Job 7 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 9 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 15 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Job 20 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Job 22 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Job 27 4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job 27 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Job 28 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job 34 7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Job 35 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Job 35 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Psalms 10 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms 12 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Psalms 26 10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.