Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 3 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full with painful effort, a vain striving after the wind and a feeding on it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

Common English Bible

⁶ But better is resting with one handful than working hard for two fistfuls and chasing after wind.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ "A handful with rest is better than both hands filled with labors and with affliction of the soul."

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

3 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way.

Proverbs 16:8

5 In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain.

Proverbs 17:1

The expectation of him that expecteth, is a most acceptable jewel: whithersoever he turneth himself, he understandeth wisely.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

Ecclesiastes 4:7

4 Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.