4 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 5 The fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh 6 Better is an handful with quietness than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit
7 Then I returned and I saw vanity under the sun 8 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
9 Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labour 10 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 11 Again if two lie together then they have heat but how can one be warm alone 12 And if one prevail against him two shall withstand him and a threefold cord is not quickly broken
13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished 14 For out of prison __ he cometh to reign whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor 15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun with the second child that shall stand up in his stead 16 There is no end of all the people even of all that have been before them they also that come after shall not rejoice in him Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit
