Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill country of Efrayim, and he sojourned in Gevah; but the men of the place were Binyamini.
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.*
I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
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.
It happened in those days, when there was no king in Yisra'el, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill country of Efrayim, who took to him a concubine out of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah.
They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gevah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.