Ecclesiastes 4:4

4Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is avanity
The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath”; also verses 7, 8, 16 (see note on 1:2)
and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

8one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his ceyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, d“For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy ebusiness.

Ecclesiastes 5:16

16This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what fgain is there to him who gtoils for the wind?
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