Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.”

yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.

If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young.

It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

“‘Do not defraud or rob your neighbor. “‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired worker overnight.

You and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere, for it is your wages for your work at the tent of meeting.

Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

“So give orders that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”

The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.

A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life.

Punishment for Israel

Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.

All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.

Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.”