Ecclesiastes 4:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³But someone who hasn’t been born yet
is better off than the dead or the living.
That’s because that person hasn’t seen the evil things
that are done on earth.

⁴I also saw that a person works hard and accomplishes a lot. But they do it only because they want what another person has. That doesn’t have any meaning either. It’s like chasing the wind.

⁵Foolish people fold their hands and don’t work.
And that destroys them.

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