6. Better a handful with quietnessThan both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.
7. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun:
8. There is one alone, without companion:He has neither son nor brother.Yet there is no end to all his labors,Nor is his eye satisfied with riches.But he never asks,“For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?”This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.
9. Two are better than one,Because they have a good reward for their labor.
10. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.But woe to him who is alone when he falls,For he has no one to help him up.