It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

Later she gave birth to another son, Abel. Abel became a shepherd, but Cain was a farmer.

and said, "From the very ground on which the LORD put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work"; so he named him Noah.

A good person's words are a fountain of life, but a wicked person's words hide a violent nature.

A hard-working farmer has plenty to eat, but it is stupid to waste time on useless projects.

Even a king depends on the harvest.

Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.

They know how to do their work, because God has taught them.

Is there any man here who has just planted a vineyard, but has not yet had the chance to harvest its grapes? If so, he is to go home. Otherwise, if he is killed in battle, someone else will enjoy the wine.

"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.

I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.

Don't look down on me because of my color, because the sun has tanned me. My brothers were angry with me and made me work in the vineyard. I had no time to care for myself.

What soldiers ever have to pay their own expenses in the army? What farmers do not eat the grapes from their own vineyard? What shepherds do not use the milk from their own sheep?