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Ecclesiastes 4:11 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm "
Ecclesiastes 4:11
Verse in Context
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Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
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.
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1
"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."
Ecclesiastes 4:2
"Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive."
Ecclesiastes 4:3
"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."
Ecclesiastes 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 spirit."
Ecclesiastes 4:5
"The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
Ecclesiastes 4:6
"Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit."
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