Ecclesiastes 4:9-16

⁹Two are better then one: for they haue better wages for their labour.

¹⁰For if they fal, the one wil lift vp his felow: but wo vnto him that is alone: for he falleth, and there is not a second to lift him vp.

¹¹Also if two sleepe together, then shall they haue heate: but to one how should there be heate?

¹²And if one ouercome him, two shall stand against him: and a threefolde coard is not easily broken.

¹³Better is a poore and wise childe, then an olde and foolish King, which will no more be admonished.

¹⁴For out of the prison he commeth forth to reigne: when as he that is borne in his kingdome, is made poore.

¹⁵I behelde all the liuing, which walke vnder the sunne, with the second childe, which shall stand vp in his place.

¹⁶There is none ende of all the people, nor of all that were before them, and they that come after, shall not reioyce in him: surely this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit.