Ecclesiastes 4:5-8

⁵Foolish people refuse to work; they sit idly, with their hands folded, and do not work. So they ruin themselves.

⁶So I say, “It is better to be content with not having much money, than to work very hard and try to get a lot of money, which is as useless as chasing the wind.”

⁷I thought about something else that happens on the earth MTY that seems senseless.

⁸There are men who live alone; they do not have a wife or children or any brothers living with them; every day they work very hard, without stopping, to get a lot of money, but they are never satisfied with the things that they have. They never ask themselves, “Why am I working very hard to earn more money? Why am I not doing things that would cause me to be happy?” What they do also seems senseless.