Psalm 104:23 {103:23}
Good News Translation
Then people go out to do their work and keep working until evening.

New Revised Standard Version
People go out to their work and to their labor until the evening.

Contemporary English Version
then we go out to work until the end of day.

New American Bible
People go out to their work, to their labor till evening falls.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Judges 19:16 And behold they saw an old man, returning out of the field and from his work in the evening, and he also was of mount Ephraim, and dwelt as a stranger in Gabaa; but the men of that country were the children of Jemini.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Ephesians 4:28 He that stole, let him now steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.

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. . . .

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
22The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens. 23Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.24How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Job 24:5
Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

Psalm 104:22
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