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Ecclesiastes 4:3-6 New International Version (NIV)

3. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

4. And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

5. Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.

6. Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.