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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 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)
The slave that works for thee faithfully, the hireling that is pledged to thy service, injure not; (Ecclesiasticus 7, 22)
All the works of man are fugitive, and must perish soon or late, and he, the workman, goes the same way as the rest. (Ecclesiasticus 14, 20)
Yet shall their choicest works win favour, and in his work he, the workman, shall live. (Ecclesiasticus 14, 21)
Evil matched with good, life matched with death, sinner matched with man of piety; so everywhere in God’s works thou wilt find pairs matched, one against the other. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 15)
So it is with every workman and master-workman, that must turn night into day. Here is one that cuts graven seals; how he busies himself with devising some new pattern! How the model he works from claims his attention, while he sits late over his craft! (Ecclesiasticus 38, 28)
Trust me, I will ring thee round, throw up earth-works against thee, set engines in place to besiege thee. (Isaiah 29, 3)
Here is blacksmith that works away with his file, beats out image with furnace and hammer, his strong arm the whole author of it; faints he, like other men, if he be hungry, tires at his task if water he have none to drink! (Isaiah 44, 12)
Down with yonder trees, the Lord of hosts says, and build siege-works about Jerusalem; here is a city must be called to account for all the oppression that is harboured there. (Jeremiah 6, 6)
How empty the observances the heathen use! What is the stuff upon which the carver works but a trunk of wood, felled by an axe out in the forest? (Jeremiah 10, 3)
Here are siege-works raised to reduce the city; sword and famine and pestilence are giving it over to the Chaldaeans for their prey; of all thou hast threatened thou seest here the fulfilment. (Jeremiah 32, 24)
