Labor Motivated by Envy

4:4 Then I considered16 all the skillful work17 that is done:

Surely it is nothing more than18 competition19 between one person and another.20

This also is profitless—like21 chasing the wind.

4:5 The fool folds his hands and does no work,22

so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.23

4:6 Better is one handful with some rest

than two hands full of toil24 and chasing the wind.