| If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. | And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. |
| 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 they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. |
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| For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. | To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. |
| He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. | He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. |
| Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this. | Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. |
| Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. | Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. |
| As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all. | As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. |
| Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. | Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. |
| He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end. | He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. |
| In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. | In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. |
