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Ecclesiastes 4:1 (KJV)

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 (KJV)

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 (KJV)

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 (KJV)

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 (KJV)

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 (KJV)

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 (KJV)

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 (KJV)

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Ecclesiastes 4:10 (KJV)

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.

Ecclesiastes 4:11 (KJV)

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4:12 (KJV)

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 (KJV)

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Ecclesiastes 4:14 (KJV)

For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Ecclesiastes 4:15 (KJV)

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Ecclesiastes 4:16 (KJV)

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:1 (KJV)

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:2 (KJV)

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 (KJV)

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Ecclesiastes 5:5 (KJV)

Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

Ecclesiastes 5:6 (KJV)

Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Ecclesiastes 5:7 (KJV)

For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Ecclesiastes 5:8 (KJV)

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 5:9 (KJV)

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 (KJV)

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 5:11 (KJV)

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?