Ecclesiastes 4:6
“Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.”
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Related Verses
“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
“There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.”
“Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”
“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”