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Fools fold their hands
    and consume their own flesh.
Better is a handful with quiet
    than two handfuls with toil,
    and a chasing after wind.[a]

Again, I saw vanity under the sun:

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 4:6 Or a feeding on wind. See Hos 12.1

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