Ecclesiastes 4:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ It’s better to have one handful of tranquility than to have two handfuls of trouble and to chase after the wind.

On Aloneness and Companionship

⁷ Then I turned to re-examine something else that is pointless on earth: ⁸ Consider someone who is alone, having neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his work, and he is^[a] never satisfied with wealth. “So for whom do I work,” he asks,^[b] “and deprive myself of pleasure?” This, too, is pointless and a terrible tragedy.