Two are better than one… If one falls, the other lifts up his companion; but woe to the one who is alone when he falls, for he has no second to lift him up.
טוֹבִים הַשְּׁנַיִם מִן־הָאֶחָד … כִּי אִם־יִפֹּלוּ הָאֶחָד יָקִים אֶת־חֲבֵרוֹ
Tovim ha-shenayim min ha-echad … ki im yippolu, ha-echad yakim et chavero.
Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) 4:9-10.
The author of Ecclesiastes, while counting out the emptiness of life, suddenly stops and makes a plain reckoning.
Two are better than one, for when one falls, the other lifts him up.
But bitter is the state of the one who falls alone.
Patience is often spoken of as a virtue for one, yet the long road is crossed with a companion.
A person's strength to endure depends in part on who walks beside them.
If someone gives a hand, falling is not the end.