Exodus 5:9

Let the labor be heavier on the men, and let them work at it so that they will pay no attention to false words.”

2 Kings 18:20

You say (but they are only empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?

Job 16:3

“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;

Zechariah 1:6

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Let there more work be laid upon the men

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Bible References

Let there more work be laid upon the men

2 Kings 18:20
You say (but they are only empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?
Job 16:3
“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?
Jeremiah 43:2
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;
Zechariah 1:6
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

General references

Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.