“ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. ”
The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation. Ecclesiastes 4:8 A second - Any one associated or connected with him. Ecclesia...
(f) Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (f) As when man is alone, he can neither help himself nor others, he shows that men should live in mutual society to...
Ecclesiastes 4. A Gloomy Survey. The chapter falls into four parts, which treat respectively of oppression ( Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 ), rivalry ( Ecclesiastes 4:4-6 ), isolation amounting to self-tortur...
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. Two are better than one - Married life is infinitely to be preferred to this kind of life, for the very reasons alleged be...
Because they have a good reward— Because they have a better reward for their common labour.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. Two (are) better than one. Two-opposed to "one" ( Ecclesiastes 4:8 ). Ties of union, marriage, friendship, religious...
Vicissitudes of Life. 'Oh, the pity of it!' 1-3. The mass of human suffering and the absence of pity are such that better off are the dead and still more the unborn. It is not only through God's...
SECOND SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Devotion To The Affairs Of Business Ecclesiastes 3:1 - Ecclesiastes 5:20 I. IF the true Good is not to be found in the School where Wisdom utter...
From this general survey the preacher returned to examine the condition of the beings whom he had described as being no better than the beasts. He looked out upon them, and saw them in suffering, and...
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. (10) 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 anothe...
Two [are] better than one ,.... The wise man takes occasion, from the solitariness Of the covetous man before described, to show in this and some following verses the preferableness and advantages o...
Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. Ver. 9. Two are better than one. ] Friendly society is far beyond that wretched "aloneness" of the covetous wretch; E...
Two Or more, who live together in any kind of society, and join their powers together in pursuit of any important object; are better than one Act more cheerfully, and accomplish their designs mor...
The Vanity of Human Wishes. 7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. 8 There is one alone, and there is...
Two, who live together in any kind of society, and join their powers together in any enterprises; which he opposeth to that humour of the covetous man, who desired to live alone, as was now said....
Chapter 4 The Dreadfulness of Oppression. Guidance on Living. This chapter begins with considering the dreadfulness of oppression and then continues with thoughts on living, giving both good and b...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 4:10 . If they fall.] Not both together, but if one or the other falls. Ecclesiastes 4:12 . A threefold cord.] Two cords would only suggest plurality, but three...
Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 A profound gloom rests on the second act or section of this drama. It teaches us that we are helpless in the iron grip of laws which we had no voice in making; that we often lie...
Ecclesiastes 4:2 . Wherefore I praised the dead more than the living, who are robbed, fleeced, and exposed to incessant afflictions, from oppression and war. Solomon alludes to extreme cases, such...
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. The necessity and benefits of religious society I. Prove the truth of the wise man’s assertion, that, “two are better...
EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 4:1-21 Section 5. Koheleth proceeds to give further illustrations of man ' s inability to be the architect of his own happiness . There are many things which inte...
Evils of Social and Civil Life
1 Corinthians 12:18-21 ; 2 John 1:8 ; Acts 13:2 ; Acts 15:39 ; Acts 15:40 ; Exodus 4:14-16 ; Genesis 2:18 ; Haggai 1:14 ; John 4:36 ; Mark 6:7 ; Numbers 11:14 ; Proverbs 27:17 ; Ruth 2:1...
Two — Who live together in any kind of society. Because — Both have great benefit by such conjunction, whereby they support, encourage, and strengthen one another.