Ecclesiastes 4:6 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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."

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 37:16

For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.

Proverbs 16:8

Better is a little with justice, than great revenues with iniquity.

Proverbs 17:1

Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Considering I found also another vanity under the sun: