The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation (Ecclesiastes 4:8).

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Woe. —The word occurs only here and in Ecclesiastes 10:16, but is common in post-Biblical Hebrew.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow
That is, if anyone of them fall, the other will lift him up, as th…

Surely, he has more satisfaction in life, who labours hard to maintain those he loves, than the miser has in his toil. In all things, union tends t…