Proverbs 23:4-5
4 aDo not toil to acquire wealth;bbe discerning enough to desist.
5When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
cfor suddenly it sprouts wings,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
22What has a man from dall the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?Ecclesiastes 3:9
The God-Given Task
9What egain has the worker from his toil?Ecclesiastes 5:16
16This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what fgain is there to him who gtoils for the wind?Isaiah 55:2
2 hWhy do you spend your money for that which is not bread,and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Habakkuk 2:13
13Behold, is it not from the Lord of hoststhat ipeoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Habakkuk 2:18
18 j“What profit is an idolwhen its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, ka teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes lspeechless idols!
Matthew 16:26
26For mwhat will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or nwhat shall a man give in return for his soul?
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