2 Corinthians 6:5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2 Corinthians 11:27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Sirach 31:1. Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the thought thereof driveth away sleep.
Sirach 31:2. The thinking beforehand turneth away the understanding, and a grievous sickness maketh the soul sober.
Sirach 31:20. Leave off first, for manners' sake: and exceed not, lest thou offend.
Sirach 38:26. With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of bulls?
Sirach 38:27. He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
Sirach 38:28. So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.
Sirach 38:30. The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
Sirach 42:9. The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful:
2 Maccabees 2:26. We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read, that it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they may more easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive profit.
