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The Loneliness of Wealth

I saw that all labour and all skilful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another.(A) This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.[a](B)

The fool folds his arms(C)
and consumes his own flesh.(D)
Better one handful with rest
than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4 Or a feeding on wind, or an affliction of spirit; also in vv. 6,16