Ecclesiastes 4:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 So also, if two sleep together, they keep each other warm. How can one alone keep warm? 12 Where one alone may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord[a] is not easily broken.
13 [b]Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows caution;
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