9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your ^wvain¹ life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your ^xportion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

25 I turned my heart to know and to ^bsearch out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of ^cfolly and the foolishness that is madness. 26 And I find something more ^dbitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. ^eHe who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. 27 Behold, this is what I found, says the ^fPreacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things— 28 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 29 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.