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Ecclesiastes 4:4

English Standard Version 2016

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

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

because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

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

He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.

Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.”




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