{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Ecclesiastes",
 "chapter": 4,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}