Ecclesiastes 4:1-6

¹Once again I thought about all the oppression that is done under the sun. And behold, the tears of oppressed people, and they had no one to comfort them! Power was in the hand of their oppressors, and there was no one to comfort them!

²So I considered those who are already dead more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.

³However, more fortunate than both of them is the one who has not yet lived, the one who has not seen any of the evil acts that are done under the sun.

⁴Then I saw that every act of labor and every skillful work became the envy of one's neighbor. This also is vapor and an attempt to shepherd the wind.

⁵The fool folds his hands and does not work, so his food is his own flesh.

⁶But better is a handful of profit with quiet work than two handfuls with the work that tries to shepherd the wind.