Ecclesiastes 4:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁹ 6 The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good [more satisfying] reward for their labor;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Common English Bible

⁹ Two are better than one because they have a good return for their hard work.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Therefore, it is better for two to be together, than for one to be alone. For they have the advantage of their companionship.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 Cross References

Genesis 2:18

8 And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

1 Chronicles 19:12

7 And it was told David, and he gathered together all Israel, and passed the Jordan, and came upon them, and put his army in array against them, and they fought with him.

Proverbs 27:17

4 For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

Ecclesiastes 4:10

Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

5 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Haggai 1:14

And I will move all nations: AND THE DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME: and I will fill this house with glory: saith the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 11:14

9 Not for one day, nor two, nor five, nor ten, no nor for twenty.

Mark 6:7

5 And others said: It is Elias. But others said: It is a prophet, as one of the prophets.

John 4:36

4 For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

Acts 13:2

0 Said: O full of all guile, and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceasest not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.

2 John 1:8

I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth.

Ruth 2:12

7 She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels: