¹⁵ Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do.

¹⁴ Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

¹⁵ The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

² For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

²³ In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips `tendeth' only to penury.

¹⁷ For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

¹¹ And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

¹¹ and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

¹² that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.