Ecclesiastes 4:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh [destroying himself by indolence].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Common English Bible

⁵ Fools fold their hands and eat their own flesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The foolish man folds his hands together, and he consumes his own flesh, saying:

Ecclesiastes 4:5 Cross References

Job 13:14

9 Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

Proverbs 11:17

4 Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

Proverbs 12:27

Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 13:4

1 Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand shall increase.

Proverbs 20:4

1 By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.

Proverbs 6:9

6 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Ecclesiastes 10:12

9 For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.

Isaiah 9:20

But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.