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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 4:4-8

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Ecclesiastes 4:4
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I have seen that every labor and every (C1)skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is (C2)futility and striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 4:5
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The fool (C1)folds his hands and (C2)consumes his own flesh.
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Ecclesiastes 4:6
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One hand full of rest is (C1)better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 4:7
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Then I looked again at futility under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
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There was a man without a (F1)dependent, having neither a son nor a brother, yet there was no end to all his labor. Indeed, (C1)his eyes were not satisfied with riches, and he never asked, "And (C2)for whom do I labor and deprive myself of pleasure?" This too is futility, and it is an (C3)unhappy task.
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