Ecclesiastes Chapter 4
4:1 | So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the ![]() ![]() |
4:2 | Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. |
4:3 | Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the ![]() ![]() |
4:4 | Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of ![]() |
4:5 | The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. |
4:6 | Better [is] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of ![]() |
4:7 | Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the ![]() |
4:8 | There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom ![]() ![]() |
4:9 | Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. |
4:10 | For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up. |
4:11 | Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]? |
4:12 | And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. |
4:13 | Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish ![]() |
4:14 | For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also [he that is] born in his kingdom becometh poor. |
4:15 | I considered all the living which walk under the ![]() |
4:16 | [There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of ![]() |