Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you [are,] And to dust you shall return."

therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This [one] will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed."

The mouth of the righteous [is] a well of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, But he who follows frivolity [is] devoid of understanding.

Moreover the profit of the land is for all; [even] the king is served from the field.

Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

For He instructs him in right judgment, His God teaches him.

'Also what man [is there] who has planted a vineyard and has not eaten of it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it.

"You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes.

I went by the field of the lazy [man,] And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;

Do not look upon me, because I [am] dark, Because the sun has tanned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me the keeper of the vineyards, [But] my own vineyard I have not kept. (TO HER BELOVED)

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?