Holy Bible - New Revised Standard Version(NRSV)

4:1	Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed-- with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power-- with no one to comfort them.
4:2	And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive;
4:3	but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
4:4	Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person's envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
4:5	Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
4:6	Better is a handful with quiet than two handfuls with toil, and a chasing after wind.
4:7	Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
4:8	the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. "For whom am I toiling," they ask, "and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
4:9	Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
4:10	For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.
4:11	Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?
4:12	And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
4:13	Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.
4:14	One can indeed come out of prison to reign, even though born poor in the kingdom.
4:15	I saw all the living who, moving about under the sun, follow that youth who replaced the king;
4:16	there was no end to all those people whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.