Ecclesiastes 4:6

New Living Translation

And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”

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It is better to be godly and have little than to be evil and rich.

Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest.

Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting—and conflict.

I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind.

So I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But I learned firsthand that pursuing all this is like chasing the wind.

I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun.