Ecclesiastes 4:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ Better is a hand filled with rest than both hands filled with toil and feeding on wind.

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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

Tet Better is the little of the righteous one, Than the riches of many wrongdoers.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with righteousness, Than a large income without right-ruling.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry piece of bread and rest with it, Than a house filled with slaughters of strife.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. And see, all was futile and feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I looked again at futility under the sun: