 | William John Deane - 1893 - 628 páginas
...the other. A middle way between them is the path of wisdom. This is taught us in ver. 6 : " Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit." The rivalry that consumes the strength, and leads almost inevitably to disappointment and vexation... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1891 - 470 páginas
...is his account of it : — "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit " (vers. 5, 6). The fool does not aim at success, and so he excites nobody's envy. He lives from hand... | |
 | Gustav Gottheil - 1896 - 504 páginas
...world's vast treasure Can supply in smallest measure. ••» XI. £6e JKe<*rf0 Contentment. Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. — Ecclesiastes iv. 6. virtue of content does indeed produce, in some measure, all the effects which... | |
 | 1898 - 422 páginas
...vanity and vexation of spirit. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea,... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1899 - 672 páginas
...p. 507. Lesson II. rpHE fool foldeth his hands to•*• gether, and eateth his own flesh. Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second ; yea,... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1900 - 840 páginas
...and vexation of spirit. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. Yet better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. And again I saw vanity under the sun. There is a man who hath neither child nor brother : yet is there... | |
 | Annesley W. Streane - 1900 - 156 páginas
...and vexation of spirit.1 5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his 6 own flesh. Better is an handful -with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.1 1 striving after wind. Another painful feature in the relation of man to man is that the steps... | |
 | 1907 - 58 páginas
...vanity and vexation of spirit. The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second ; yea,... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1907 - 334 páginas
...London and as wealthy, but it stultifies its own ends, and would be better not at all. " Better is an handful with quietness than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit." Such, in brief, are the main consequences of worry which, in a word, is the negation of all that makes... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 664 páginas
...London, and as wealthy, but it stultifies its own ends, and would be better not at all. "Better is an handful with quietness than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit." Such, in brief, are the main consequences of worry which, in a word, is the negation of all that makes... | |
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Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. 
