Ecclesiastes 4:1-7
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1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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3 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.
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4 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.
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5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
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7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.