Ecclesiastes 4:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Cross References

Psalm 37:16

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.