Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 5315 [e] נֶ֣פֶשׁ ne-p̄eš The person N-fs 6001 [e] עָ֭מֵל ‘ā-mêl who labors N-ms 5998 [e] עָ֣מְלָה ‘ā-mə-lāh labors V-Qal-Perf-3fs   לּ֑וֹ lōw; for himself Prep | 3ms 3588 [e] כִּֽי־ kî- for Conj 404 [e] אָכַ֖ף ’ā-ḵap̄ drives [on] V-Qal-Perf-3ms 5921 [e] עָלָ֣יו ‘ā-lāw him Prep | 3ms 6310 [e] פִּֽיהוּ׃ pî-hū. his [hungry] mouth N-msc | 3ms

New American Standard Bible
A worker's appetite works for him, For his hunger urges him on.

King James Bible
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A worker's appetite works for him because his hunger urges him on.

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Proverbs 9:12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, …

Proverbs 14:23 In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tends only to penury.

Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …

2 Thessalonians 3:8-12 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor …

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