Ecclesiastes 4:9-16 ▼

9 The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labor.

10 For if they fall, the one raises up his companion, but woe to the one who falls and there is not a second to raise him up!

11 Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how has one heat?

12 And if the one strengthens himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not quickly broken.

13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who has not known to be warned anymore.

14 For from a house of prisoners he has come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he has been poor.

15 I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who stands in his place;

16 there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter do not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and distress of spirit.