Ecclesiastes 4:11

New Living Translation

Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone?

Parallel Translations

Update Bible Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone]?

New Century Version
If two lie down together, they will be warm, but a person alone will not be warm.

New English Translation
Furthermore, if two lie down together, they can keep each other warm, but how can one person keep warm by himself?

Webster's Bible Translation
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?

World English Bible
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

Amplified Bible
Again, if two lie down together, then they keep warm; but how can one be warm alone?

English Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if tweyne slepen, thei schulen be nurschid togidere; hou schal oon be maad hoot?

English Revised Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth: but how can one be warm alone?

Berean Standard Bible
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?

Contemporary English Version
If you sleep alone, you won't have anyone to keep you warm on a cold night.

American Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

Bible in Basic English
So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

Complete Jewish Bible
Again, if two people sleep together, they keep each other warm; but how can one person be warm by himself?

Darby Translation
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one alone be warm?

Easy-to-Read Version
If two people sleep together, they will be warm. But a person sleeping alone will not be warm.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

King James Version (1611)
Againe, if two lye together, then they haue heate; but howe can one be warme alone?

New Life Bible
And if two lie down together, they keep warm. But how can one be warm alone?

New Revised Standard
Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also if two sleepe together, then shall they haue heate: but to one how should there be heate?

George Lamsa Translation
Again, if two sleep together, they will be warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Good News Translation
If it is cold, two can sleep together and stay warm, but how can you keep warm by yourself

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover, if two lie together, then have they warmth, - but how can, one, have warmth?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

Revised Standard Version
Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Agayne, when two sleepe together they are warme: but howe can a body be warme alone?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also if two should lie together, they also get heat: but how shall one be warmed alone?

Christian Standard Bible®
Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?

Hebrew Names Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

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

Lexham English Bible
Also if two lie together, they can keep each other warm. But how can one person be warm?

Literal Translation
Also if two lie together , then they have warmth; but for one, how is he warm?

Young's Literal Translation
Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Agayne, when two slepe together, they are warme: but how can a body be warme alone?

THE MESSAGE
Two in a bed warm each other. Alone, you shiver all night.

New American Standard Bible
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

New King James Version
Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; But how can one be warm alone?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

Legacy Standard Bible
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?

Contextual Overview

⁷ I observed yet another example of something meaningless under the sun. ⁸ This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing. ⁹ Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. ¹⁰ If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. ¹¹ Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? ¹² A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1, 1 Kings 1:2

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.

Genesis 4:14
You have banished me from the land and from your presence; you have made me a homeless wanderer. Anyone who finds me will kill me!"

Genesis 4:15
The Lord replied, "No, for I will give a sevenfold punishment to anyone who kills you." Then the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who might try to kill him.

Genesis 4:16
So Cain left the Lord 's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:19
Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the first of those who raise livestock and live in tents.

Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal, the first of all who play the harp and flute.

Genesis 4:26
When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to worship the Lord by name.

Job 16:18
"O earth, do not conceal my blood. Let it cry out on my behalf.

Isaiah 26:21
Look! The Lord is coming from heaven to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will no longer hide those who have been killed. They will be brought out for all to see.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat,.... The Targum adds, in the winter; when it is a cold season, they warm one another by lying together. The Targum interprets it of a man and his wife; it is true of others; see 1 Kings 1:1;

but how can one be warm [alone]? not soon, nor easily, in time of cold weather. This is true in a spiritual sense of persons in a Christian communion and religious society; when they are grown cold in their love, lukewarm in their affections, and backward and indifferent to spiritual exercises, yet by Christian conversation may be stirred up to love and good works: so two cold flints struck against each other, fire comes out of them; and even two cold Christians, when they come to talk with each other about spiritual things, and feel one another's spirits, they presently glow in their affections to each other, and to divine things; and especially if Christ joins them with his presence, as he did the two disciples going to Emmaus, then their hearts burn within them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

A second - Any one associated or connected with him.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Compare a saying from the Talmud: “A man without companions is like the left hand without the right.”