Ecclesiastes 4:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

Ecclesiastes 4:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1-4
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

Here Solomon fastens upon another instance of the vanity of this world, that frequently the more men have of it the more they would have; and on this they are so intent that they have no enjoyment of what they have. Now Solomon here shows, I. That selfishness is the cause of this evil (Eccl. 4:7, 8): There is one alone, that minds none but himself, cares for nobody, but would, if he could, be plac…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. (See on 1Ki 1:1). The image is taken from man and wife, but applies universally to the warm sympathy derived from social ties. So Christian ties (Lu 24:32; Ac 28:15).