9. Two are better than one: They get a good wage for their toil.
10. If the one falls, the other will help the fallen one. But woe to the solitary person! If that one should fall, there is no other to help.
11. So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one alone keep warm?
12. Where one alone may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken.
13. Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows caution;
14. for from a prison house he came forth to reign; despite his kingship he was born poor.
15. I saw all the living, those who move about under the sun, with the second youth who will succeed him.
16. There is no end to all this people, to all who were before them; yet the later generations will not have joy in him. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.