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A single open hand holds grain while tools lie idle beside a resting worker.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Ecclesiastes 4:4-6

A Handful with Rest

Oppression, Companionship, and Passing Favor · Ecclesiastes 4

Story guide: Interpretive visual essay. Anonymous figures and settings illustrate this passage; they are not identified historical people.

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4And I saw that all labor and all skillful work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This too is vanity and a chasing after wind.

5The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.

6Better is a handful with rest than two handfuls with toil and chasing after wind.

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