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Ecclesiastes 4:7
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Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
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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.''
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Ecclesiastes 4:7 In-Context
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Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
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Better is a handful with quiet than two handfuls with toil, and a chasing after wind.
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Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
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the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. "For whom am I toiling," they ask, "and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
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Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.