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Ecclesiastes 4:5-14 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

5. The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

6. `Better [is] a handful [with] quietness, than two handfuls [with] labour and vexation of spirit.'

7. And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

8. There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' Thisalso is vanity, it is a sad travail.

9. The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

10. For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

11. Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

12. And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

13. Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

14. For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

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