Bible Verses About Careers

"(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)"

Job 24:9 ESV

"The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. ..."

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV

"An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts. And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean. And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. ..."

Isaiah 17:1-14 ESV

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."

James 1:27 ESV

"But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?"

1 John 3:17 ESV

"A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous."

Proverbs 13:22 ESV

"Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it."

Proverbs 21:20 ESV

"The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender."

Proverbs 22:7 ESV

"For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?"

Luke 14:28 ESV

"If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?"

Luke 16:11 ESV