Ecclesiastes 4:6-15

1. 6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

2. 7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

3. 8 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.

4. 9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

5. 10 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.

6. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

7. 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

8. 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

9. 14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

10. 15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

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