“If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 4 contains 16 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.