NITHYAM SONGSEcclesiastes 4
World English Bible (WEB) • 16 verses
1Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
RelatedEcclesiastes 3:16 · Ecclesiastes 5:8 · 2 Timothy 4:16-17 · Isaiah 5:7 · Lamentations 1:2 · Isaiah 51:23
2Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
RelatedLuke 23:29 · Matthew 24:19 · Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 · Psalms 55:6-11 · Job 3:10-16 · Job 10:18-19
4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Related1 John 3:12 · Ecclesiastes 1:14 · Ecclesiastes 2:21 · Ecclesiastes 2:26 · 1 Samuel 18:29-30 · 1 Samuel 18:14-16
5The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
6Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
8There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
Related1 John 2:16 · Proverbs 27:20 · Luke 12:20 · Ecclesiastes 1:8 · Matthew 11:28 · Ecclesiastes 1:13
9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
RelatedProverbs 27:17 · Genesis 2:18 · 1 Corinthians 12:18-21 · Numbers 11:14 · Mark 6:7 · John 4:36
10For 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.
Related1 Thessalonians 5:11 · 1 Thessalonians 4:18 · Isaiah 35:3-4 · Galatians 6:1 · Job 4:3-4 · Luke 22:31-32
11Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
Related1 Kings 1:1-4
12If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
RelatedEphesians 4:3 · Daniel 3:16-17 · 2 Samuel 23:9 · 2 Samuel 23:23 · 2 Samuel 23:18-19 · 2 Samuel 23:16
13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
Related2 Chronicles 25:16 · Proverbs 19:1 · 2 Chronicles 16:9-10 · Proverbs 28:15-16 · 1 Kings 22:8 · Proverbs 28:6
14For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
RelatedGenesis 41:14 · Psalms 113:7-8 · Job 5:11 · Lamentations 4:20 · 2 Kings 25:27-30 · 2 Kings 24:12
15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
Related2 Samuel 15:6
16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
RelatedEcclesiastes 1:14 · Ecclesiastes 2:17 · 1 Kings 1:40 · 2 Samuel 18:7-8 · 1 Kings 1:5-7 · Judges 9:19-20
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.