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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
J'ai vu que tout travail et toute habileté dans le travail n'est que jalousie de l'homme à l'égard de son prochain. C'est encore là une vanité et la poursuite du vent.
KJV
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.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 89 (Migne)
itur: Contemplatus sum omnes labores hominum, et industrias, et animadverti patere invidiae proximi (Eccl. IV, 4) . Constat namque et verum est quia in hoc aliis invidemus quo illos sive in rebus temporalibus, sive in mundi honoribus aequari volumus. Unde qui mortiferum invidiae…
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