Ecclesiastes 4:11

Also if two should lie together, they also get heat: 1 But how shall one be warmed alone? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: 1 But woe to him that is alone when he falls, 1 And there is not a second to lift him up. 1

12And if one should prevail against him, 1 The two shall withstand him; 1 And a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:2And his servants said, Let them seek for the king a young virgin, and she shall wait on the king, and cherish him, and lie with him, and my lord the king shall be warmed.

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 4:8-13

The Vanity of Human Wishes. 7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. 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. 9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is… Read the whole commentary →

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