Ecclesiastes 4:10

“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, etc.] That is, if anyone of them fall, the other will lift him up, as they are travelling together, in whatsoever manner; if one falls from his horse, or out of his carriage, or into a ditch, the other will endeavour to raise him up again: this, as it is true in a natural, so in a figurative and metaphorical sense, with religious persons especially; “if one of them falls upon the bed, and lies sick,” as the Targum paraphrases it, his friend and brother in a religions community will visit him, and sympathize with him, and speak a word of comfort to him, and pray with him, which may issue in his restoration. So the Targum, “the other will…”

“if they fall--if the one or other fall, as may happen to both, namely, into any distress of body, mind, or soul.”

“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.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“They - One of them. Fall - Into any mistake, or sin, or danger. Ecclesiastes 4:12”

“if: Exo 32:2-4, Exo 32:21; Deu 9:19, Deu 9:20; Sa1 23:16; Sa2 11:27, Sa2 12:7-14; Job 4:3, Job 4:4; Isa 35:3, Isa 35:4; Luk 22:31, Luk 22:32; Gal 2:11-14, Gal 6:1; Th1 4:18, Th1 5:11 but: Gen 4:8; Sa2 14:6 Ecclesiastes 4:11”

“"For if they fall, the one can raise up his fellow: but woe to the one who falleth, and there is not a second there to lift him up." Only the Targ., which Grtz follows, confounds אילו (Note: With Munach and Rebia in one word, which, according to the masora, occurs in only four other places. Vid., Mas. magna under this passage, and Mishpete hateamin 26a.) with אילוּ; it is equivalent to אוי לו, Isa 3:9, or הוי לו, Eze 13:18. Haehhad is appos. connecting itself to the pronominal suff., as, e.g., in a far more inappropriate manner, Psa 86:2; the prep. is not in appos. usually repeated, Gen 2:19; Gen 9:4 (exceptions: Ps. 18:51; Psa 74:14). Whether we translate שׁיּפּל by qui ceciderit ( Ecc…”