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Ecclesiastes 4:4-6
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4 Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind.

5 The fool sits back and takes it easy,
His sloth is slow suicide.

6 One handful of peaceful repose
Is better than two fistfuls of worried work—
More spitting into the wind.

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