Ecclesiastes 4:1-7

¹Then I turned and saw all the oppressions which take place under the sun; and, behold, there were the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors there was violence, and they had no comforter.

²Therefore I praised the dead, who have been long ago dead, more than the living, who are yet alive.

³Yea, better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work which is done under the sun.

⁴And I saw all labor, and all success in work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity, and striving after wind.

⁵The fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh.

⁶Better is a hand full of quietness, than both hands full of weariness and striving after wind.

⁷Then I turned and saw other vanity under the sun.