DEUT699 (Continued from [[EXOD389]] Exodus 8:9 labor COHON 179) Indolence on weekdays leads to the profanation of the Sabbath. Scripture says "The Lord thy God will bless thee in all the work of thy hands." [this verse]. "Shall I infer from this statement that the Divine blessing will come even to him who stays idle? Therefore the verse continues: 'which the doest.'" See Tahuma, Vayetze, 13. Where there is no labor there is no blessing. Hence the rabbis rated the merit of industry above idle piety. In the words of the Psalmist: "When thou eatest the labor of the hands, Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.--128:2. Ber. 8a. While there are drones in every hive who fatten on the work of others, they are to be pitied rather than envied. Idleness is a curse which leads to ill health and to immorality. Ketubot 59b. A good share of honest toil has recommended itself to moderns as a cure of many illnesses and as the best way out of mischief. "He who does not teach his son a trade is as if he taught him robbery." Kid. 29a. A person of sound health has no right to live on that which he has not earned. Adam, while still in the Garden of Eden, was not allowed to eat before he earned his bread by work. Ab. R.N., B, 21; A, 11.