Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ Better is an handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and striving after wind.

More versions

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

Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness Than great revenues with injustice.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel and quietness therewith, Than an house full of feasting with strife.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.