“labour” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word labour appears 139 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 3:17 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.
- Genesis 31:42 Unless the God of my father, Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had stood by me, peradventure now thou hadst sent me away naked: God beheld my affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
- Genesis 35:17 By reason of her hard labour, she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
- Exodus 18:8 Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharao, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.
- Exodus 18:18 Thou art spent with foolish labour, both thou, and this people that is with thee; the business is above thy strength, thou alone canst not bear it.
- Exodus 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
- Leviticus 26:20 Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.
- Numbers 20:14 In the mean time Moses sent messengers from Cades to the king of Edom, to say: Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the labour that hath come upon us:
- Numbers 21:4 And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour:
- Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
- Deuteronomy 24:15 But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.
- Deuteronomy 25:18 How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.
- Deuteronomy 26:7 And we cried to the Lord God of our fathers: who heard us, and looked down upon our affliction, and labour, and distress:
- Judges 19:22 While they were making merry, and refreshing their bodies with meat and drink, after the labour of the journey, the men of that city, sons of Belial (that is, without yoke), came and beset the old man’s house, and began to knock at the door, calling to the master of the house, and saying: Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may abuse him:
- 1 Kings 4:19 And his daughter in law, the wife of Phinees, was big with child, and near her time: and hearing the news that the ark of God was taken, and her father in law, and her husband, were dead, she bowed herself and fell in labour: for her pains came upon her on a sudden.
- 2 Paralipomenon 28:15 And the men, whom we mentioned above, rose up and took the captives, and with the spoils clothed all them that were naked: and when they had clothed and shod them, and refreshed them with meat and drink, and anointed them because of their labour, and had taken care of them, they set such of them as could not walk, and were feeble, upon beasts, and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren, and they returned to Samaria.
- 2 Esdras 3:16 After him built Nehemias the son of Azboc, lord of half the street of Bethsur, as far as over against the sepulchre of David, and to the pool, that was built with great labour, and to the house of the mighty.
- 2 Esdras 9:32 Now therefore our God, great, strong, and terrible, who keepest covenant and mercy, turn not away from thy face all the labour which hath come upon us, upon our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and all the people from the days of the king of Assur, until this day.
- Tobias 2:19 Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.
- Judith 5:10 And when the king of Egypt oppressed them, and made slaves of them to labour in clay and brick, in the building of his cities, they cried to their Lord, and he struck the whole land of Egypt with divers plagues.
- Job 5:7 Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.
- Psalms 7:15 Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.
- Psalms 24:18 See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.
- Psalms 47:7 Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.
- Psalms 48:9 Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
- Psalms 54:11 Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
- Psalms 72:5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
- Psalms 72:16 I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
- Psalms 77:51 And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.
- Psalms 89:10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.
- Psalms 93:20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?
- Psalms 103:23 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.
- Psalms 104:36 And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of all their labour.
- Psalms 126:1 Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
- Psalms 139:10 The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
- Proverbs 23:4 Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
- Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and that despiseth the labour of his mother in bearing him, let the ravens of the brooks pick it out, and the young eagles eat it.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,
- Ecclesiastes 1:18 Because in much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he hath been tormented under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 3:9 What hath man more of his labour?
- Ecclesiastes 3:13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
- Ecclesiastes 5:17 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.