Ecclesiastes 4:3-5

Young's Literal Translation

³ And better than both of them [is] he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

⁴ And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁵ The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh: