◄ Ecclesiastes 4:11 ►
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Good News Translation
If it is cold, two can sleep together and stay warm, but how can you keep warm by yourself?

New Revised Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?

Contemporary English Version
If you sleep alone, you won't have anyone to keep you warm on a cold night.

New American Bible
So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one alone keep warm?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

1 Kings 1:1,2 Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was covered with clothes he was not warm. . . .

Context
The Evil of Oppression
…10If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up. 11And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?12And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.…
Cross References
1 Kings 1:1
Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was covered with clothes he was not warm.

Ecclesiastes 4:10
If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 4:12
And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:10
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