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|Ecclésiaste 4:1| Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed — with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power — with no one to comfort them.
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|Ecclésiaste 4:2| And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive;
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|Ecclésiaste 4:3| but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
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|Ecclésiaste 4:4| Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. 1
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|Ecclésiaste 4:5|Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
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|Ecclésiaste 4:6|Better is a handful with quiet than two handfuls with toil, and a chasing after wind. 2
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|Ecclésiaste 4:7| Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
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|Ecclésiaste 4:8| the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
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|Ecclésiaste 4:9| Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
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|Ecclésiaste 4:10| For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.
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