Ecclesiastes 4:11

Revised Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

King James Version
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: 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?

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 (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 Again, I saw vanity under the sun: ⁸ a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business. 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 are warm; but how can one be 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1, 1 Kings 1:2

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me."

Genesis 4:15
Then the LORD said to him, "Not so! If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him.

Genesis 4:16
Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have cattle.

Genesis 4:21
His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

Job 16:18
"O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain.

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.”