New Revised Standard Version
The appetite of workers works for them; their hunger urges them on.

Contemporary English Version
The hungrier you are, the harder you work.

New American Bible
The appetite of workers works for them, for their mouths urge them on.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

The soul of him that laboureth, laboureth for himself, because his mouth hath obliged him to it.

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Proverbs 9:12 A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,

Proverbs 14:23 In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.

Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.

1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's. . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:8-12 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you. . . .

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