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Early abroad, to sow thy seed, and let evening find thee still at work; which sowing shall speed better, none knows, or whether both shall thrive to thy profit.✻ (Ecclesiastes 11, 6)
What can the woman of Sulam give you to feast your eyes on, if it be not the dance of the Two Camps?✻ Ah, princely maid, how dainty are the steps of thy sandalled feet! Thighs well shaped as the beads of a necklace, some master-craftsman’s work; (Song of Solomon 7, 1)
Or if sound judgement is man’s business, who else on earth goes to work so skilfully as she?✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 6)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
But no, he never looks forward to the day when he will be past work; how short life is, he recks not; he must vie with goldsmith and silversmith, he must be even with his neighbour that works in bronze; in puppet-making✻ all his hope lies of winning fame. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 9)
Or wouldst thou make slow work of turning to the Lord, and put it off from day to day? (Ecclesiasticus 5, 8)
better fall to work and have a full belly than keep thy pride and go fasting. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 30)
Yet shall their choicest works win favour, and in his work he, the workman, shall live. (Ecclesiasticus 14, 21)
To each, for all time, its own office is assigned, nor lack they, nor tire they, nor cease they from work, (Ecclesiasticus 16, 27)
and let the fear of the most High God do its work.What is true wisdom? Nothing but the fear of God. And since the fear of God is contained in all true wisdom, it must be directed by his law; (Ecclesiasticus 19, 18)
Crushed spirits, a clouded brow, a heavy heart, all this is an ill woman’s work; (Ecclesiasticus 25, 31)
