Ecc 4:6
Better {is} an handful {with} quietness, than both the hands full {with} travail and vexation of spirit.
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Better {is} a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Better {is} little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
A little that a righteous man hath {is} better than the riches of many wicked.
Better {is} a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices {with} strife. {sacrifices: or, good cheer}
And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
A little that a righteous man hath {is} better than the riches of many wicked.
In the house of the righteous {is} much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.