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Ecclesiastes 4:5
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Ecclesiastes 4:5
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“Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”
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Ecclesiastes 4:5 In-Context
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But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.
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Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
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“Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”
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And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”
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I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun.
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