Populaire Bijbelverzen uit Ecclesiastes 4

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Two are better than one, because they have a good [more satisfying] reward for their labor; For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

And though a man might prevail against him who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Again, if two lie down together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full with painful effort, a vain striving after the wind and a feeding on it.

Then I saw that all painful effort in labor and all skill in work comes from man's rivalry with his neighbor. This is also vanity, a vain striving after the wind and a feeding on it.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)