Ec 4 (King James)

¹ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
² Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
³ Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
⁴ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
⁵ The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
⁶ Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
⁷ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
⁸ There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
⁹ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
¹⁰ For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
¹¹ Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
¹² And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
¹³ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
¹⁴ For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
¹⁵ I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
¹⁶ There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ec 4 (Vulgate)

¹ [Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias quæ sub sole geruntur, et lacrimas innocentium, et neminem consolatorem, nec posse resistere eorum violentiæ, cunctorum auxilio destitutos,
² et laudavi magis mortuos quam viventes ;
³ et feliciorem utroque judicavi qui necdum natus est, nec vidit mala quæ sub sole fiunt.
⁴ Rursum contemplatus sum omnes labores hominum, et industrias animadverti patere invidiæ proximi ; et in hoc ergo vanitas et cura superflua est.
⁵ Stultus complicat manus suas, et comedit carnes suas, dicens :
⁶ Melior est pugillus cum requie, quam plena utraque manus cum labore et afflictione animi.
⁷ Considerans, reperi et aliam vanitatem sub sole.
⁸ Unus est, et secundum non habet, non filium, non fratrem, et tamen laborare non cessat, nec satiantur oculi ejus divitiis ; nec recogitat, dicens : Cui laboro, et fraudo animam meam bonis ? In hoc quoque vanitas est et afflictio pessima.]
⁹ [Melius est ergo duos esse simul quam unum ; habent enim emolumentum societatis suæ.
¹⁰ Si unus ceciderit, ab altero fulcietur. Væ soli, quia cum ceciderit, non habet sublevantem se.
¹¹ Et si dormierint duo, fovebuntur mutuo ; unus quomodo calefiet ?
¹² Et si quispiam prævaluerit contra unum, duo resistunt ei ; funiculus triplex difficile rumpitur.
¹³ Melior est puer pauper et sapiens, rege sene et stulto, qui nescit prævidere in posterum.
¹⁴ Quod de carcere catenisque interdum quis egrediatur ad regnum ; et alius, natus in regno, inopia consumatur.
¹⁵ Vidi cunctos viventes qui ambulant sub sole cum adolescente secundo, qui consurget pro eo.
¹⁶ Infinitus numerus est populi omnium qui fuerunt ante eum, et qui postea futuri sunt non lætabuntur in eo ; sed et hoc vanitas et afflictio spiritus.]
¹⁷ [Custodi pedem tuum ingrediens domum Dei, et appropinqua ut audias. Multo enim melior est obedientia quam stultorum victimæ, qui nesciunt quid faciunt mali.]