I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind. | 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. |
Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. | Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. |
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up! | 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. |
And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. | And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken. |
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