Ecclesiastes 4:4-9 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

4. Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

5. The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.

6. Better is a handful with quietness, than both hands full with toil and grasping for the wind.

7. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

8. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

9. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.

Ecclesiastes 4