Ecclesiastes 4

1 And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

And I returned I and I saw all the oppression which [were being] done under the sun and there! - [the] tear[s] of the oppressed and not [belonged] to them a comforter and [was] from [the] hand of oppressors their power and there not [belonged] to them a comforter.

2 So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

And I congratulated I the dead who already they had died more than the living who they [were] alive still.

3 Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

And [is] good more than both of them [one] who still not he has been [one] who not he has seen the activity evil which it is done under the sun.

4 And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

And I considered I all [the] toil and all [the] skill of the work that it [is] envy of everyone from neighbor his also this [is] futility and striving of wind.

5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

The fool [is] folding hands his and [is] eating own flesh his.

6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

[is] good Fullness of hand of quietness more than [the] fullness of two hands toil and striving of wind.

7 Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

And I returned I and I saw futility under the sun.

8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

There [was] one [person] and there not [was] a second also a son and a brother not [belonged] to him and there not [was] an end to all toil his also (eye his *Q(K)*) not it was satisfied wealth and for whom? - [am] I a laborer and depriving self my from good also this [is] futility and [is] a task of evil it.

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.

[are] good Two [people] more than one that there for them [is] a reward good for toil their.

10 And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.

That except they will fall down the one he will raise companion his and woe! to him the one who will fall down and there not [is] a second [person] to raise him.

11 So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

Also if they will lie down two [people] and it will be warm to them and to one [person] how? will it be warm.

12 And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.

And though someone will overpower him the one [person] the two [people] they will stand before him and the thread threefold not quickly it will be torn apart.

13 A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.

[is] good A youth poor and wise more than a king old and a fool who not he knows to be warned still.

14 Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.

For from [the] house of the prisoners he came out to become king for also in own kingdom his he had been born a poor [person].

15 I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

I saw all the living who are walking about under the sun with the youth second who he will arise in place of him.

16 There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

There not [is] an end to all the people to all [those] whom he was before them also the subsequent [people] not they will rejoice in him for also this [is] futility and a striving of wind.