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Ecclesiastes 4
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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the
sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no
comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had
no comforter. |
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living
which are yet alive. |
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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not
seen the evil work that is done under the sun. |
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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 spirit. |
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The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. |
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Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail
and vexation of spirit. |
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Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. |
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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 do I labour, and bereave
my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. |
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| 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a
good reward for their labour. |
(4:9-12)
"Two are better than one" -- the value of friendship.
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| 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. |
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| 4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm
alone? |
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| 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold
cord is not quickly broken. |
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Better is a poor and a
wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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"Better is a poor and a wise child than
an old and foolish king."
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For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his
kingdom becometh poor. |
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I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second
child that shall stand up in his stead. |
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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 spirit.
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