6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
and yet a real good is but a fistful of rest; better than both palms full of toil and vexation of spirit.
(6.) Good (i.e. a real good) filling a hand (כף, ‘the open palm’) with rest, than to fill (which repeated twice is emphatic) the double hand (חפנים occurs only Exodus ix. 8, Leviticus xvi. 12, Proverbs xxx. 4, Ezekiel x. 2, 7,——the ‘two hands’ held together so as to hold the most they can) of a toil and vexation of spirit.
7 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Furthermore I have observed also another instance of evanescence within this hot work-day world.
(7.) And I turned, I myself, and I see (the same formula introducing another instance of the same kind) a vanity (an instance of vanity) under the sun.