Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. | 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. |
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. | Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. |
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For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up. | 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! |
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. | And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. |