Ecclesiastes 4:6

New International Version

Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

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Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked;

Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.

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

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.

Again I saw something meaningless under the sun: