English Bible Presentation Sharing - Ecclesiastes Book, chapter 4, verse 1 in Ylt Version

Ecclesiastes 4 : 1 (YLT)

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors *is power, and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 2 (YLT)

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 3 (YLT)

And better than both of them *is he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 4 (YLT)

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this *is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 5 (YLT)

The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:

Ecclesiastes 4 : 6 (YLT)

`Better *is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.`

Ecclesiastes 4 : 7 (YLT)

And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

Ecclesiastes 4 : 8 (YLT)

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and *he saith not , `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?` This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 9 (YLT)

The two *are better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 10 (YLT)

For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

Ecclesiastes 4 : 11 (YLT)

Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

Ecclesiastes 4 : 12 (YLT)

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 13 (YLT)

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 14 (YLT)

For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

Ecclesiastes 4 : 15 (YLT)

I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

Ecclesiastes 4 : 16 (YLT)

there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.