7 And YOUR father has trifled with me* and he has changed my wages ten times, but God* has not allowed him to do me harm.+

15 In his day you should give him his wages,+ and the sun should not set upon them, because he is in trouble and is lifting up his soul to his wages; that he may not cry out to Jehovah against you,+ and it must become sin on your part.+

6 And now command that they cut for me cedars* from Lebʹa·non;+ and my servants themselves will prove to be with your servants, and the wages of your servants I shall give to you according to all that you may say, for you yourself well know that there is among us no one knowing how to cut trees like the Si·doʹni·ans.”+

13 “Woe to the one building his house,+ but not with righteousness, and his upper chambers, but not with justice, by use of his fellowman who serves for nothing, and whose wages he does not give him;+

18 For the scripture says: “You must not muzzle a bull when it threshes out the grain”;+ also: “The workman is worthy of his wages.”+