Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

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But I said, “I have labored in vain;(A)
    I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(B)
    and my reward(C) is with my God.”(D)

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(A)Then I said, ‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain;
Yet surely my [a]just reward is with the Lord,
And my [b]work with my God.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:4 justice
  2. Isaiah 49:4 recompense

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

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The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor.(A)

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Now he who plants and he who waters are one, (A)and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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