| 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 his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up. |
| And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart. | Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken. |
| There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven. | To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven. |
| One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility. | He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. |
| Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. | Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not inquire wisely concerning this. |
| 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 labor. |
| Just as you do not know the path of the wind, and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes everything. | As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything. |
| So remove sorrow from your heart and keep pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting. | Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth are vanity. |
| On the day of prosperity be happy, But on the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other So that a person will not discover anything that will come after him. | In the day of prosperity be joyful, But in the day of adversity consider: Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, So that man can find out nothing that will come after him. |
| Words from the mouth of a wise person are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him. | The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, But the lips of a fool shall swallow him up. |
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