4 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity1 and a sstriving after wind.
5 The fool tfolds his hands and eats his own flesh.
6 uBetter is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]