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Ecclesiastes Chapter 4

Ecclesiastes
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Ecclesiastes

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The chapter warns that true wisdom lies in maintaining good relationships, especially among friends, and that quarrels are harmful. It teaches that two people can correct a third, but a single person is not enough, and that the love of friends is greater than the fear of death. The overall message is that human connections are more important than external success.

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(1) So 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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Job 6:29Malachi 3:18Ecclesiastes 3:16Ecclesiastes 5:8Ecclesiastes 7:7Exodus 1:13Exodus 1:14Exodus 1:16Exodus 1:22Exodus 2:23Exodus 2:24Exodus 5:16

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Isaiah 38:8

(2) Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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Ecclesiastes 2:17Ecclesiastes 9:4Ecclesiastes 9:5Ecclesiastes 9:6Job 3:17Job 3:18Job 3:19Job 3:20Job 3:21

(3) Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 6:3Ecclesiastes 6:4Ecclesiastes 6:5Job 3:10Job 3:11Job 3:12Job 3:13Job 3:14Job 3:15Job 3:16Job 10:18Job 10:19

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Ecclesiastes 8:15Jonah 4:8

(4) Again, 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.
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Genesis 4:4Genesis 4:5Genesis 4:6Genesis 4:7Genesis 4:8Genesis 37:2Genesis 37:3Genesis 37:4Genesis 37:5Genesis 37:6Genesis 37:7Genesis 37:8

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Ecclesiastes 2:26Ecclesiastes 1:2

(5) The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 6:11Proverbs 12:27Proverbs 13:4Proverbs 20:4Proverbs 24:33Proverbs 24:34Job 13:14Proverbs 11:17Isaiah 9:20

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Romans 14:3Romans 14:6

(6) Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
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Psalms 37:16Proverbs 15:16Proverbs 15:17Proverbs 16:8Proverbs 17:1

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Proverbs 17:1

(7) Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 4:1Psalms 78:33Zechariah 1:6

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Ecclesiastes 9:9Isaiah 38:8Ecclesiastes 1:2

(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.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9Ecclesiastes 4:10Ecclesiastes 4:11Ecclesiastes 4:12Genesis 2:18Isaiah 56:3Isaiah 56:4Isaiah 56:5Genesis 15:2Genesis 15:3Isaiah 5:8Ecclesiastes 1:8

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Ecclesiastes 1:8Ecclesiastes 2:10Ecclesiastes 9:9Luke 6:42

(9) Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
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Genesis 2:18Exodus 4:14Exodus 4:15Exodus 4:16Numbers 11:14Proverbs 27:17Haggai 1:14Mark 6:7Acts 13:2Acts 15:39Acts 15:40I Corinthians 12:18

(10) For 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.
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Exodus 32:2Exodus 32:3Exodus 32:4Exodus 32:21Deuteronomy 9:19Deuteronomy 9:20I Samuel 23:16II Samuel 11:27II Samuel 12:7II Samuel 12:8II Samuel 12:9II Samuel 12:10

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Deuteronomy 22:4Revelation 8:13

(11) Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
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I Kings 1:1I Kings 1:2

(12) And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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II Samuel 23:9II Samuel 23:16II Samuel 23:18II Samuel 23:19II Samuel 23:23Daniel 3:16Daniel 3:17Ephesians 4:3

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Ecclesiastes 12:6Isaiah 8:9

(13) Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15Ecclesiastes 9:16Genesis 37:2Proverbs 19:1Proverbs 28:6Proverbs 28:15Proverbs 28:16I Kings 22:8II Chronicles 16:9II Chronicles 16:10II Chronicles 24:20II Chronicles 24:21

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11I Kings 3:26Ecclesiastes 9:15II Kings 4:34

(14) For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
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Genesis 41:14Genesis 41:33Genesis 41:34Genesis 41:35Genesis 41:36Genesis 41:37Genesis 41:38Genesis 41:39Genesis 41:40Genesis 41:41Genesis 41:42Genesis 41:43

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Proverbs 1:27

(15) I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
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II Samuel 15:6

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I Kings 3:26II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34Jeremiah 6:16Zechariah 3:7

(16) There 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.
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II Samuel 15:12II Samuel 15:13I Kings 1:5I Kings 1:6I Kings 1:7I Kings 1:40I Kings 12:10I Kings 12:11I Kings 12:12I Kings 12:13I Kings 12:14I Kings 12:15

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Psalms 62:9Jeremiah 44:25Ecclesiastes 1:2

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