| 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. | 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! |
| And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. 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. |
| For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. | There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven. |
| The lover of money will not be satisfied with money; nor the lover of wealth, with gain. This also is vanity. | One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility. |
| Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. | 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. |
| Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. | Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. |
| Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything. | 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. |
| Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. | So remove sorrow from your heart and keep pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting. |
| In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them. | 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. |
| Words spoken by the wise bring them favor, but the lips of fools consume them. | Words from the mouth of a wise person are gracious, while the lips of a fool consume him. |
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