Ecclesiastes 4

1 And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors [is] power, and they have 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 And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

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

3 And better than both of them [is] he who has not yet been, in that he has not seen the evil work that has been 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 have seen all the labor, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbor. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.

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 fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

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

6 “Better [is] a handful [with] quietness, than two handfuls [with] labor and distress of spirit.”

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

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

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

8 There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he has not, and there is no end to all his labor! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he does not say], “For whom am I laboring and bereaving my soul of good?” This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

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

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

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

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 Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how has one heat?

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 if the one strengthens himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is 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 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who has not known to be warned anymore.

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

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

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 have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who stands in his place;

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 is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter do not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and distress of spirit.

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.