World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 4:4
“Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 4
2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
5
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
6
Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
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