Ecclesiastes 4:4-6

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The Loneliness of Wealth

⁴I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another.^(A) This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.^[a]^(B)

⁵The fool folds his arms^(C)
and consumes his own flesh.^(D)
⁶Better one handful with rest
than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.^(E)

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Footnotes

4:4 Or a feeding on wind, or an affliction of spirit; also in vv. 6,16

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