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Ecclesiastes 4:4
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
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Next I realized that all effort and achievement stem from one person's envy of another. This too is futility and feeding on wind.
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So I considered the dead happier, because they were already dead, than the living, who must still live their lives;
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but happier than either of them is the one who has not yet been born, because he has not yet seen the evil things that are done under the sun.
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Next I realized that all effort and achievement stem from one person's envy of another. This too is futility and feeding on wind.
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Fools fold their arms together and eat their own flesh away.
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Better an armload with tranquillity than both arms full of effort and feeding on wind.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.