Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 4:10-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

10. If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up.

11. And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?

12. And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.

13. Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

14. Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.