Ecclesiastes 4:8

6 ^aBetter a handful with quietness
Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.

7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun:

8 There is one alone, without¹ companion:
He has neither son nor brother.
Yet there is no end to all his labors,
Nor is his ^aeye satisfied with riches.
But ^bhe never asks,
“For whom do I toil and deprive myself of ^cgood?”
This also is vanity and a¹ grave misfortune.

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

10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
For he has no one to help him up.

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Interlinear Bible for Ecclesiastes 4:8:

There is
yesh (#3426) one
'echad (#259) alone, and there is not
'ayin (#369) a second;
sheniy (#8145) yea,
gam (#1571) he hath neither
'ayin (#369) child
ben (#1121) nor brother:
'ach (#251) yet is there no
'ayin (#369) end
qets (#7093) of all
kol (#3605) his labor;
`amal (#5999) neither
lo' (#3808) is his eye
`ayin (#5869) satisfied
saba` (#7646) with riches;
`osher (#6239) neither saith he, For whom
miy (#4310) do I
'aniy (#589) labor,
`amel (#6001) and bereave
chacer (#2637)
'eth (#853) my soul
nephesh (#5315) of good?
min (#4480) This
zeh (#2088) is also
gam (#1571) vanity,
hebel (#1892) yea, it
huw' (#1931) is a sore
ra` (#7451) travail.
`inyan (#6045)

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