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Ecclesiastes 4:5
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Ecclesiastes 4:5
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Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.
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Ecclesiastes 4:5 in Other Translations
KJV
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The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
ESV
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The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.
NLT
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“Fools fold their idle hands, leading them to ruin.”
MSG
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The fool sits back and takes it easy, His sloth is slow suicide.
CSB
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The fool folds his arms and consumes his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes 4:5 In-Context
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But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
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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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Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.
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Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
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Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:
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Proverbs 6:10
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