Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'labour' occurs 89 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'labour' in the standard works and contain 16.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 2:18-22 (5 in 5 verses)

Eccl. 2:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 4:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 35:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 5:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 65 25 90
Gen. 3 0 3
Ex. 2 2 4
Deut. 2 1 3
Josh. 2 0 2
Neh. 2 1 3
Job 3 1 4
Ps. 9 0 9
Prov. 5 3 8
Eccl. 23 7 30
Isa. 4 5 9
Jer. 3 1 4
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 2 0 2
Dan. 0 1 1
Hosea 0 1 1
Jonah 0 1 1
Micah 1 0 1
Hab. 2 0 2
Hag. 1 1 2
NT 24 31 55
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 89 56 145

Neh. 4:22
Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

Neh. 5:13
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.