Psalms 104:23
Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
BSB
ASV
Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labor until the evening.
KJV
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Man goeth forth. It is his turn now, and the sunrise has made things ready for him. His warm couch he forsakes and the comforts of home, to find his daily food; this work is good for him, both keeping him out of mischief, and exercising his faculties. Unto his work and to his labour until the evening. He goes not forth to sport but to work, not to loiter but to labour; at least, this is the lot of the best part of mankind.
The beasts creep forth to spoil and do mischief; man goes forth to work and do good. There is the work of every day, which is to be done in its day, which man must apply to every morning (for the lights are set up for us to work by, not to play by) and which he must stick to till evening; it will be time enough to rest when the night comes, in which no man can work.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
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before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Through
Ephesians 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
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Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
You shall not steal.