Ecclesiastes 4:8-10

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⁸ There are people who live alone.
    They have no friends, children or brothers.
They work hard every day.
    They want to get more riches for themselves.
    But they are never happy with the things that they have.
They should ask themselves, ‘Why am I working so hard?
    Am I helping anybody?
    I am not doing things that make me happy.’
Their work has no purpose. It only brings trouble to their lives.

⁹ Two people who work together
    are better than one person who works alone.
    They can help each other to work well.
¹⁰ If one of them falls down,
    his friend can help him to get up.
But it is terrible if you fall down when you are alone.
    There is nobody who can help you to stand up again.