Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 4:6

6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travel and vexation of spirit .

These are the words, either 1. of the Sluggard making this Apology for his idleness, That his little with ease, is better than great Riches got with much trouble. Or 2. of Solomon, who elsewhere speaks to the same purpose, as Prov. 15. 16, 17. & 17 1. and here proposeth it as a good Antidote against the vanity of immoderate cares and labours for worldly goods, against which he industriously directs his speeches in divers places of this Book, and particularly as a seasonable precaution against the sin of covetousness, of which he speaks in the following passage.

Marginal references: Prov. 15. 16, 17. & 16. 8.