There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.
Isaiah 19:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised No head or tail, palm or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Neither can any work [done singly or by concerted action] accomplish anything for Egypt, whether by head or tail, palm branch or rush [high or low]. American Standard Version (1901) Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. Common English Bible Neither head nor tail, palm branch nor reed will be able to do anything for Egypt. Catholic Public Domain Version And there will be no work for Egypt that would produce a head or a tail, one who bows down or one who refrains from bowing down. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back. |
There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.
The people did not turn to him who struck them; they did not seek the Lord of Armies.
Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the flocks disappear from the pen and there are no herds in the stalls,
I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, fresh oil, and whatever the ground yields, on people and animals, and on all that your hands produce.’