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Ecclesiastes 4:4

The Message Bible MSG

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4 Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind.

4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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