Ecclesiastes 4:11

Updated Bible Version

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

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Furthermore, if two lie down together they 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?

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; 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?

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?

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?

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

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

New American Standard Bible
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁷ Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. ⁸ There is one that is alone, and he has not a second; yes, he has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yes, it is an intense travail. ⁹ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. ¹⁰ For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and does not have another to lift him up. ¹¹ Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone]? ¹² And if a man prevails against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and 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
And Yahweh God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life:

Genesis 4:14
Look, you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from your face I shall be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whoever finds me will slay me.

Genesis 4:15
And Yahweh said to him, Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him should smite him.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

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

Genesis 4:20
And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and [have] cattle.

Genesis 4:21
And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he named him Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the name of Yahweh.

Job 16:18
O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no [resting]-place.

Isaiah 26:21
For, look, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall 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.”