¹⁶ Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

²³ Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

¹ Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

¹¹ And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;

¹² That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

²⁸ Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

¹² There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

¹³ And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

²⁷ Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

²³ In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

¹¹ Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

¹⁴ So they went on their way; and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the land of Benjamin.

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.