²⁶ The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; For his mouth urges him on.

⁷ All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

²³ In all hard work there is profit, But the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

¹¹ and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;

¹² that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

⁸ neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

⁹ not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

¹¹ For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

¹² Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.