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Ecclesiastes 4:9 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 4 · verse 9
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.Ecclesiastes 4:9 · King James Version
What Ecclesiastes 4:9 means
Solomon spends the next three verses on why — one can lift the other up, two keep warm, a threefold cord is not quickly broken. This is a practical argument rather than a sentimental one, written by a man who had just finished observing how alone most people are.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9 in context
7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8There 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.
9Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10For 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.
11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
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Here Solomon fastens upon another instance of the vanity of this world, that frequently the more men have of it the more they would have; and on this they are so intent that they have no enjoyment of what they have. Now Solomon here shows, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-12