"There is one {alone}, and {there is} not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet {is there} no end of all …" — Ecclesiastes 4:8

Ecclesiastes 4:8 · KJV

“There is one {alone}, and {there is} not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet {is there} no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither {saith he}, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This {is} also vanity, yea, it {is} a sore travail.”

— Ecclesiastes 4:8

Verse 7

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

Verse 9

Two {are} better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Ecclesiastes 4 — Context

Better {is} an handful {with} quietness, than both the hands full {with} travail and vexation of spirit.

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

There is one {alone}, and {there is} not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet {is there} no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither {saith he}, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This {is} also vanity, yea, it {is} a sore travail.

Two {are} better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

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.

Cross References

1 John 2:16

For all that {is} in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Proverbs 27:20

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. {never: Heb. not}

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, {Thou} fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? {thy...: Gr. do they require thy soul}

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things {are} full of labour; man cannot utter {it}: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Matthew 11:28

Come unto me, all {ye} that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all {things} that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. {to be...: or, to afflict them}

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Two {are} better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Isaiah 5:8

Woe unto them that join house to house, {that} lay field to field, till {there be} no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! {they: Heb. ye}