Ecclesiastes 4:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ Better is one handful with peace of mind
    than two handfuls with toil
    and a chase after the wind.

⁸ There was a solitary individual,
    without a friend, with neither a son nor a brother.
Yet there was no end to his toil,
    and wealth did not satisfy his greed.
“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
    “and depriving myself of pleasures?”
This also is vanity
    and a worthless task.