Ecclesiastes 4:11

Young's Literal Translation

Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

Parallel Translations

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?

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

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.

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

World English Bible
Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; 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?

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Agayne, when two slepe together, they are warme: but how can a body be warme 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?

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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Agayne, when two sleepe together they are warme: but howe can a body 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?

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

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]?

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?

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

Contextual Overview

⁷ And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun: ⁸ There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail. ⁹ The two [are] better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. ¹⁰ For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up! ¹¹ Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat? ¹² And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1, 1 Kings 1:2

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, `Because thou hast done this, cursed [art] thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;

Genesis 4:14
lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been -- every one finding me doth slay me.'

Genesis 4:15
And Jehovah saith to him, `Therefore -- of any slayer of Cain sevenfold it is required;' and Jehovah setteth to Cain a token that none finding him doth slay him.

Genesis 4:16
And Cain goeth out from before Jehovah, and dwelleth in the land, moving about east of Eden;

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech taketh to himself two wives, the name of the one Adah, and the name of the second Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
And Adah beareth Jabal, he hath been father of those inhabiting tents and purchased possessions;

Genesis 4:21
and the name of his brother [is] Jubal, he hath been father of every one handling harp and organ.

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.

Job 16:18
O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.

Isaiah 26:21
For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more 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.”