The preference for a handful with rest over two handfuls with toil and striving after wind suggests a modest satisfaction as preferable to ambitious accumulation. This verse recommends accepting a smaller share of goods in exchange for peace and freedom from the anxious striving that vanity generates. The phrase "striving after wind" echoes the book's recurring language of futility, suggesting that the choice between modest contentment and ambitious grasping becomes, in light of vanity, a choice between peace and pointless exhaustion.

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