Better one handful with rest
than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.(A)

Again, I saw futility under the sun: There is a person without a companion,[a] without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.(B) “So who am I struggling for,” he asks, “and depriving myself from good?” This too is futile and a miserable task.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 4:8 Lit person, but there is not a second,

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