Proverbs 12:11

¹⁹One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

²³In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

¹¹and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you, ¹²that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

²For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

²⁸Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

⁶Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

⁸neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

⁷I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

⁴Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

¹⁹You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”