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Ecclesiastes 4:9 (NIV)

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:

Ecclesiastes 4:16 (NIV)

There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:14 (NIV)

The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.

Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4:10 (NIV)

If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 (NIV)

And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 (NIV)

And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 (NIV)

Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NIV)

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 (NIV)

Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 4:11 (NIV)

Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4:15 (NIV)

I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor.

Ecclesiastes 4:5 (NIV)

Fools fold their hands and ruin themselves.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 (NIV)

Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 (NIV)

There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business!

Ecclesiastes 4:3 (NIV)

But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:17 (NIV)

The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 (NIV)

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes 9:6 (NIV)

Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:15 (NIV)

Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:16 (NIV)

So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.

Ecclesiastes 9:2 (NIV)

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.