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Behold, you yourselves have all seen it; why then do you spend yourselves in idle words! (Job 27, 12)
But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice. (Job 35, 13)
Why draw back your right hand, why keep it idle beneath your cloak? (Psalms 74, 11)
he said: "Woe is me! Why was I born to see the ruin of my people and the ruin of the holy city, and to sit idle while it is given into the hands of enemies, and the sanctuary into the hands of strangers? (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
He who tills his own land has food in plenty, but he who follows idle pursuits is a fool. (Proverbs 12, 11)
He who cultivates his land will have plenty of food, but from idle pursuits a man has his fill of poverty. (Proverbs 28, 19)
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening let not your hand be idle: For you know not which of the two will be successful, or whether both alike will turn out well. (Ecclesiastes 11, 6)
When the guardians of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, And the grinders are idle because they are few, and they who look through the windows grow blind; (Ecclesiastes 12, 3)
But you will that the products of your Wisdom be not idle; therefore men trust their lives even to frailest wood, and have been safe crossing the surge on a raft. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 5)
Make a slave work and he will look for his rest; let his hands be idle and he will seek to be free. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 26)
Force him to work that he be not idle, for idleness is an apt teacher of mischief. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 28)
Speak not to a woman about her rival, nor to a coward about war, to a merchant about business, to a buyer about value, to a miser about generosity, to a cruel man about mercy, to a lazy man about work, to a seasonal laborer about the harvest, to an idle slave about a great task: pay no attention to any advice they give. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 11)
