Ecclesiastes 4:10 (BSB)

For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!

From Ecclesiastes 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 4:10

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Ecclesiastes 4:7-12: Here Solomon fastens upon another instance of the vanity of this world, that frequently the more men have of it the more they would have; and on this they are so intent that they have no enjoyment of what they have. Now Solomon here shows, I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Ecclesiastes 4:10: For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow,.... 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Ecclesiastes 4:10: if they fall--if the one or other fall, as may happen to both, namely, into any distress of body, mind, or soul.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Ecclesiastes 4:10: Ecc 4:10 “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 Grätz follows, confounds אילו with אילוּ; it is equivalent to אוי לו, Isa 3:9, or הוי לו, Eze 13:18. Haehhad is appos.