Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, if the one should fall, the other would raise up his companion, - but alas! for him who is alone when he falleth, with no second to raise him up!
New American Standard Bible
For if
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.
International Standard Version
If they stumble, the first will lift up his friend but woe to anyone who is alone when he falls and there is no one to help him get up.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
for if
Bible in Basic English
And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.
Darby Translation
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and who hath not another to lift him up!
Julia Smith Translation
For if they shall fall, the one will raise up his companion: and wo to him, the one that shall fall, and not a second to raise him up.
King James 2000
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if one falls, his companion may help him up. But pity the one who falls and there is {no one} to help him up.
Modern King James verseion
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he does not have another to help him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If one of them fall, his companion helpeth him up again: But woe is him that is alone, for if he fall, he hath not another to help him up.
NET Bible
For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.
New Heart English Bible
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.
Webster
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 to rise.
World English Bible
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.
Youngs Literal Translation
For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!
Interlinear
Naphal
Quwm
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References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 19 Translations in Ecclesiastes 4:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Friends And Family Can Help One Another In Life
9 Better are two, than one, - in that they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For, if the one should fall, the other would raise up his companion, - but alas! for him who is alone when he falleth, with no second to raise him up! 11 Moreover, if two lie together, then have they warmth, - but how can, one, have warmth?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 4:8
And Cain said unto Abel his brother Let us go into the field And it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Exodus 32:2-4
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the rings of gold, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons and of your daughters, - and bring them unto me.
Exodus 32:21
And Moses said unto Aaron, What had this people done to thee, - that thou shouldst have brought upon them a great sin?
Deuteronomy 9:19-20
For I shrank with fear from the face of the anger and the hot displeasure, wherewith Yahweh was provoked against you to destroy you, - but Yahweh hearkened unto me, even at that time.
1 Samuel 23:16
So Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went unto David in the thicket, - and strengthened his hand in God;
2 Samuel 11:27
And, when the time of mourning had passed, David sent and received her into his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing which David had done was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh.
2 Samuel 12:7-14
Then said Nathan unto David: Thou, art the man! Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel - I, anointed thee to be king over Israel, and, I, delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
2 Samuel 14:6
Now, thy maidservant, had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, with none to tear them apart, - so the one smote the other, and slew him.
Job 4:3-4
Lo! thou hast admonished many, and, slack hands, hast thou been wont to uphold:
Isaiah 35:3-4
Strengthen ye the weak hands, - The trembling knees, make ye firm:
Luke 22:31-32
Simon! Simon! lo! Satan, hath claimed you, to sift as wheat;
Galatians 2:11-14
But, when Cephas came unto Antioch, to the face, even , him, I resisted, because he stood condemned;
Galatians 6:1
Brethren! if a man should even be overtaken in any fault, ye, the spiritual, be restoring such a one, in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself, lest, even thou, be put to the test.
1 Thessalonians 4:18
So then, be consoling one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore be consoling one another, and building up, each the other, - even as ye are also doing.