Psalms 104:23

World English Bible (2000)

Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Judg 19:16 : 16 Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
  • Eccl 5:12 : 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
  • Eph 4:28 : 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
  • 2 Thess 3:8-9 : 8 neither 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; 9 not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us. 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat." 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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    22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

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  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

  • Eccl 2:20-24
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    20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

    24There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

  • Ps 104:19-20
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    19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

    20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

  • Eccl 3:9-11
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    9What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

    10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

    11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Eccl 5:15-18
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    15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

    17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

    18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

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  • Ps 127:2
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    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

  • Eccl 3:20-22
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    20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

    22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • Prov 24:27
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    27Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

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    8Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

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

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    24A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

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    27These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

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