Ecclesiastes 4:9-16

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, 1but how can one keep warm alone?
12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13 Better was 2a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how 3to take advice.
14 For he went 4from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor.
15 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that[a] youth who was to stand in the king's[b] place.
16 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is 5vanity and a striving after wind.

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Cross References 5

  • 1. See 1 Kings 1:1-4
  • 2. [Ecclesiastes 9:15, 16]
  • 3. [Proverbs 12:15]
  • 4. See Gen. 41:14, 41-43
  • 5. See Ecclesiastes 1:14

Footnotes 2

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