Écclésiaste 4:11

Louis Segond

De même, si deux couchent ensemble, ils auront chaud; mais celui qui est seul, comment aura-t-il chaud?

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Si deux aussi couchent ensemble, ils en auront [plus] de chaleur; mais celui qui est seul, comment aura-t-il chaud?

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
De m�me si deux couchent ensemble, ils auront chaud; mais celui qui est seul, comment aura-t-il chaud?

Darby's French Translation
De m�me, si l'on couche � deux, on a de la chaleur; mais celui qui est seul, comment aura-t-il chaud?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 1:1, 1 Kings 1:2

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.”