Ecclesiastes 4:6-8

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⁶Better is a handful with quiet
than two handfuls with toil,
and a chasing after wind.^[a]

⁷Again, I saw vanity under the sun: ⁸the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

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

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