These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 4
Tanakh 16 verses
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But 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.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Lamentations 1:2 Isaiah 5:7 Lamentations 1:9 Psalm 10:9-10 Psalm 102:8-9 Isaiah 59:13-15 Malachi 2:13 James 5:4 Job 35:9 Exodus 1:16 Proverbs 28:3 Job 16:4 Job 19:21-22 Deuteronomy 28:33 Psalm 142:4 Deuteronomy 28:48 Psalm 42:9 Exodus 5:16-19 Judges 10:7-8 Proverbs 19:7 Psalm 69:20 Psalm 80:5 2 Timothy 4:16-17 Job 24:7-12 Matthew 26:56 Isaiah 51:23 Isaiah 59:7 Malachi 3:5 Job 6:29 Proverbs 28:15-16 Ecclesiastes 7:7 Nehemiah 5:1-5 Exodus 2:23-24 Judges 4:3 Psalm 42:3 Malachi 3:18 Psalm 12:5 Exodus 1:13-14 Exodus 1:22 -
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Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;
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- 3 but better than they both is he that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- 4 Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man’s rivalry with his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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The fool foldeth his hands together, And eateth his own .
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Better is a handful of quietness, Than both the hands full of labour and striving after wind.
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Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
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- 8 There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches: ‘for whom then do I labour, and bereave my of pleasure?’ This also is vanity, yea, it is a grievous business.
- 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 alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.
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Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?
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And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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- 13 Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish , who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
- 14 For out of prison he came forth to be ; although in his he was born poor.
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I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the child, the second, that was to stand up in his stead.
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- 16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them whom he did lead; yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.