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Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 4:4)
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.(Ecclesiastes 4:5)
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 4:6)
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.(Ecclesiastes 4:8)
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.(Ecclesiastes 4:9)
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.(Ecclesiastes 4:10)

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Ecclesiastes 4:7 - Cross Reference

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. (Psalm 78:33)
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. (Zechariah 1:6)
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. (Ecclesiastes 4:1)