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Ecclesiastes 4 cross-references
Ecclesiastes 4 has 16 verses, which point to 165 other passages and are cited by 123. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
See Ecclesiastes 4’s threads in the explorerEcclesiastes 4:1
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Points to (41)
- Ecclesiastes 3:16 — And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of… 13 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 — If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province,… 8 votes
- 2 Timothy 4:16–17 — At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their… 7 votes
- Isaiah 5:7 — For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he… 7 votes
- James 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud,… 6 votes
- Matthew 26:56 — And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the… 6 votes
Pointed to from (27)
- Psalms 12:5 — For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set… 14 votes
- Psalms 72:12 — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. 13 votes
- Revelation 14:13 — And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from… 6 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither… 6 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Points to (3)
- Job 3:11–26 — Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 5 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 — Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity… 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:4–6 — For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 2 votes
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- Ecclesiastes 7:1 — A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 9 votes
- Jeremiah 22:10 — Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no… 8 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 — Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity… 3 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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- Luke 23:29 — For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that… 4 votes
- Matthew 24:19 — And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 3 votes
- Ecclesiastes 6:3–5 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 20:17–18 — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always… 2 votes
- Jeremiah 9:2–3 — Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 — Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity… 2 votes
Pointed to from (3)
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul… 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:18 — Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 — What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 2 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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- 1 John 3:12 — Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own… 11 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:21 — For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not… 7 votes
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 — I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 7 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 — For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth… 5 votes
- 1 Samuel 18:29–30 — And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually. 4 votes
- 1 Samuel 18:14–16 — And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. 4 votes
Pointed to from (33)
- Ecclesiastes 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is… 9 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither… 8 votes
- Genesis 31:1 — And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them… 5 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:5
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Points to (8)
- Isaiah 9:20 — And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not… 5 votes
- Proverbs 6:10–11 — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 5 votes
- Proverbs 13:4 — The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. 4 votes
- Proverbs 20:4 — The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. 3 votes
- Job 13:14 — Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 3 votes
- Proverbs 12:27 — The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious. 2 votes
Pointed to from (2)
- Ephesians 5:29 — For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 4 votes
- Job 13:14 — Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 3 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Points to (4)
- Proverbs 16:8 — Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. 15 votes
- Proverbs 15:16–17 — Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith. 15 votes
- Psalms 37:16 — A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 11 votes
- Proverbs 17:1 — Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. 7 votes
Pointed to from (6)
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded… 27 votes
- Luke 12:15 — And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the… 10 votes
- Psalms 37:16 — A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 6 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 3:12 — Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat… 4 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:7
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Points to (3)
- Ecclesiastes 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such… 3 votes
- Zechariah 1:6 — But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your… 2 votes
- Psalms 78:33 — Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. 2 votes
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- Psalms 39:6 — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and… 5 votes
- Ecclesiastes 10:5 — There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 8:9 — All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time… 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 — What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 1 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
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- 1 John 2:16 — For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not… 11 votes
- Proverbs 27:20 — Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. 10 votes
- Luke 12:20 — But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those… 8 votes
- Ecclesiastes 1:8 — All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled… 7 votes
- Matthew 11:28 — Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 6 votes
- Ecclesiastes 1:13 — And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this… 6 votes
Pointed to from (20)
- Matthew 11:28 — Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 27 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is… 10 votes
- Proverbs 27:20 — Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. 8 votes
- Mark 4:19 — And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in,… 6 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
Points to (12)
- Proverbs 27:17 — Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. 71 votes
- Genesis 2:18 — And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 57 votes
- 1 Corinthians 12:18–21 — But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 41 votes
- Mark 6:7 — And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over… 28 votes
- Numbers 11:14 — I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 28 votes
- John 4:36 — And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he… 16 votes
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- Genesis 2:18 — And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 61 votes
- 1 Samuel 23:16 — And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. 47 votes
- Mark 6:7 — And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over… 10 votes
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 — There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of… 5 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:10
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
Points to (12)
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11 — Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. 17 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:18 — Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 10 votes
- Galatians 6:1 — Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of… 7 votes
- Isaiah 35:3–4 — Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 7 votes
- Job 4:3–4 — Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 votes
- Luke 22:31–32 — And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 3 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:11
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
Points to (1)
- 1 Kings 1:1–4 — Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 8 votes
Pointed to from (1)
- 1 Kings 1:2 — Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her… 10 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:12
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Points to (3)
- Ephesians 4:3 — Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 6 votes
- Daniel 3:16–17 — Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to… 6 votes
- 2 Samuel 23:9 — And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they… 0 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Points to (9)
- Proverbs 19:1 — Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. 5 votes
- 2 Chronicles 25:16 — And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel?… 5 votes
- Proverbs 28:15–16 — As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. 4 votes
- 2 Chronicles 16:9–10 — For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of… 4 votes
- 1 Kings 22:8 — And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may… 3 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:15–16 — Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered… 2 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Ecclesiastes 9:15 — Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered… 6 votes
- Proverbs 16:31 — The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. 6 votes
- Job 32:9 — Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. 6 votes
- Proverbs 17:2 — A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among… 5 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:14
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
Points to (13)
- Psalms 113:7–8 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; 8 votes
- Genesis 41:14 — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself,… 8 votes
- Lamentations 4:20 — The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his… 6 votes
- Job 5:11 — To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 6 votes
- Daniel 4:31 — While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to… 5 votes
- 2 Kings 25:27–30 — And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the… 5 votes
Pointed to from (2)
- 1 Samuel 2:8 — He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among… 11 votes
- Luke 1:52 — He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. 8 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:15
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
Points to (1)
- 2 Samuel 15:6 — And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts… 2 votes
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Points to (11)
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 — I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 — Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity… 3 votes
- 1 Kings 1:40 — And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that… 3 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:26 — For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and,… 2 votes
- 1 Kings 12:10–16 — And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people… 2 votes
Pointed to from (5)
- Ecclesiastes 6:11 — Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is… 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 11:8 — But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 4:4 — Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This… 2 votes