Ecclesiastes 4:4-6

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⁴Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.^[a]

⁵Fools fold their hands
    and consume their own flesh.
⁶Better is a handful with quiet
    than two handfuls with toil,
    and a chasing after wind.^[b]

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Footnotes

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1

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