Ecclesiastes 4:8-12 There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge. ⁹ Therfore two are better then one, for they maye well enioye the profit of their laboure. ¹⁰ Yf one of them fall, his companyon helpeth him vp againe: But wo is him that is alone, for yf he fall, he hath not another to helpe him vp. ¹¹ Agayne, when two slepe together, they are warme: but how can a body be warme alone? ¹² One maye be ouercome, but two maye make resistauce: A thre folde cable is not lightly broken.