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 folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.
6 Better is a handful with rest than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7 Then I returned, and I saw another vanity under the sun.
8 It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son 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 and sore travail.
9 Two are better than one because they have a better 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 falls, for he has not another to help him up.