9. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
10. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
11. Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
12. If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13. Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
14. For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
15. I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
16. There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.