Ecclesiastes4chapter 4

Aramaic Targum to Ecclesiastes 4:1

And I turned and saw all the oppressions which are done to the righteous in this world under the sun, from the hand of their oppressors; and there is none that should speak consolation to them; and there is none to deliver them from the hand of their oppressors with strong hand and power, and none comforts them.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Coheleth, trans. by C.D.Ginsburg, London 1861

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 4:10

For if they fall. [To be understood] according to its apparent meaning.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001

Aramaic Targum to Ecclesiastes 4:10

For if one of them falls upon the bed and lies sick, the other will cause his friend to rise by his prayer; but if there is only one innocent man in a generation, if he falls upon the bed and lies sick, he has no companion in his generation to pray for him, yet shall he rise by his own merit from his sickness.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Coheleth, trans. by C.D.Ginsburg, London 1861

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 4:11

They can be warm. [To be understood] according to its apparent meaning, regarding male and female, who are aroused by one another and procreate.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 4:12

And if an individual attacks. If thieves came to attack him, if they are two, they will stand up to them, and certainly, if they are three, “and the threefold cord is not quickly severed.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001

Rashi on Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better a poor but wise child. This is the good inclination, and why is it called “child”? Because it comes to a person only at the age of thirteen years.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001