Ecclesiastes 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Ecclesiastes 4:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
1 Corinthians 12:18-21
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. …
Mark 6:7
And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
Numbers 11:14
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

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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. 9)

9. Two--opposed to “one” (Ec 4:8). Ties of union, marriage, friendship, religious communion, are better than the selfish solitariness of the miser (Ge 2:18). reward--Advantage accrues from their efforts being conjoined. The Talmud says, “A man without a companion is like a left hand without the right.