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Ecclesiastes 4

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  1. 1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.68 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 3:16, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Isaiah 5:7, Job 35:9, Lamentations 1:2
  2. 2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.6 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 2:17, Job 3:11–26, Ecclesiastes 9:4–6
  3. 3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.14 cross-references: Luke 23:29, Ecclesiastes 6:3–5, Matthew 24:19, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Job 3:10–16
  4. 4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.50 cross-references: 1 John 3:12, Ecclesiastes 1:14, Ecclesiastes 2:21, Ecclesiastes 2:26, 1 Samuel 18:29–30
  5. 5The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.10 cross-references: Isaiah 9:20, Proverbs 6:10–11, Proverbs 20:4, Job 13:14, Proverbs 13:4
  6. 6Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.10 cross-references: Proverbs 15:16–17, Proverbs 16:8, Psalms 37:16, Proverbs 17:1
  7. 7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.7 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 4:1, Psalms 78:33, Zechariah 1:6
  8. 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.39 cross-references: 1 John 2:16, Proverbs 27:20, Luke 12:20, Ecclesiastes 1:8, Ecclesiastes 1:13
  9. 9Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.22 cross-references: Proverbs 27:17, Genesis 2:18, 1 Corinthians 12:18–21, Mark 6:7, Numbers 11:14
  10. 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.16 cross-references: 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, Isaiah 35:3–4, Galatians 6:1, Job 4:3–4
  11. 11Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?2 cross-references: 1 Kings 1:1–4
  12. 12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.6 cross-references: Ephesians 4:3, Daniel 3:16–17, 2 Samuel 23:9, 2 Samuel 23:23, 2 Samuel 23:18–19
  13. 13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.16 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 25:16, 2 Chronicles 16:9–10, Proverbs 19:1, Proverbs 28:15–16, Ecclesiastes 9:15–16
  14. 14For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.15 cross-references: Genesis 41:14, Psalms 113:7–8, Job 5:11, 2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 25:7
  15. 15I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.1 cross-reference: 2 Samuel 15:6
  16. 16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.16 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 1:14, 1 Kings 1:40, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:11, 2 Samuel 19:9

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