Ecclesiastes 4:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Better is one handful with tranquility than two with toil and a chase after wind! Companions and Successors.

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Better the meagerness of the righteous one than the plenty of the wicked.

Better a little with justice, than a large income with injustice.

Better a dry crust with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a chase after wind.

yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.

Again I saw this vanity under the sun: