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."

Then people go out to do their work and keep working until evening.

Your work will provide for your needs; you will be happy and prosperous.

The more easily you get your wealth, the sooner you will lose it. The harder it is to earn, the more you will have.

Work and you will earn a living; if you sit around talking you will be poor.

Don't build your house and establish a home until your fields are ready, and you are sure that you can earn a living.

I determined that I would examine and study all the things that are done in this world. God has laid a miserable fate upon us.

Workers may or may not have enough to eat, but at least they can get a good night's sleep. The rich, however, have so much that they stay awake worrying.

If you used to rob, you must stop robbing and start working, in order to earn an honest living for yourself and to be able to help the poor.

Make it your aim to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to earn your own living, just as we told you before.

In this way you will win the respect of those who are not believers, and you will not have to depend on anyone for what you need.

While we were with you, we used to tell you, "Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat."