Ecclesiastes 4:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 another to help him up.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ If either should fall, one can pick up the other. But how miserable are those who fall and don’t have a companion to help them up!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ If one falls, he shall be supported by the other. Woe to one who is alone. For when he falls, he has no one to lift him up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 4:10 Cross References

Genesis 4:8

Cain said to Abel his brother, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

2 Samuel 11:27

And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

2 Samuel 14:6

And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

Exodus 32:21

And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought a great sin upon them?”

Ecclesiastes 4:11

Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4:9

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

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.

1 Thessalonians 4:18

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 Samuel 23:16

And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.