For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
The covetous man is a slave to his own appetite, laboring night and day with no one to feed but himself, yet his eye is never satisfied with riches. He has enough for his back and belly and calling, but not for his eyes; he counts his money and will not spend it, bereaving himself of all comfort in what he grasps.
AI summary
Commenting on Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
A companion lifts you when you fall, whether from a horse or into sin or error; but the solitary man has no one to restore him, no Christian friend to visit him in sickness, relieve him in poverty, or recover him from his wanderings. Most dreadful of all if he lacks Christ to uphold him.
AI summary
if they fall--if the one or other fall, as may happen to both, namely, into any distress of body, mind, or soul.