Ecclesiastes 4:7

Wealth without Someone with Which to Enjoy It is Futile

7 I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 4:7

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
] Another vanity besides what he had taken notice of, and is as follows. Aben Ezra's note is,

``I turned from considering the words of this fool, and I saw another fool, the reverse of the former.''

Ecclesiastes 4:7 In-Context

5 {The fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin}!

6 Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind.

7 I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun.

8 Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!

9 Two [are] better than the one, for they enjoy a better reward for their toil.