The One Question Solomon Asked Before Any Partnership
Before you go into any business partnership, King Solomon's words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 hold one question worth asking out loud with your business partner. The question is drawn from the verse, "For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth" (King James Version), and this video shows where it comes from and what to do with it this week.
In this video:
· Ecclesiastes 4:10 in Hebrew: "if they fall" is plural; "chaver" (companion, from a root meaning to join) appears in eleven verses of the Hebrew Bible; and "ve'ein sheni" ("and there is no second") stands side by side in only two verses, both in Ecclesiastes 4
· The three ways a business partnership falls, whether it is split fifty-fifty or not: the body, death, and the door
· The fall list: three lines to write tonight, and how to bring the question to your business partner at lunch
· The Connelly brothers of Crown C Supply in St. Louis: their agreement kept the company in the family when one brother died
· Why the IRS counted the company's life insurance money in its value, and what a unanimous Supreme Court said in Connelly v. United States (2024)
· What to look for in your operating agreement or partnership agreement this week (questions for your lawyer, not answers)
· Proverbs 25:19 and the "time of trouble"
· Abram and Lot (Genesis 13): success split them, and Abram named a fair way to part while the quarrel was still small
· Ecclesiastes 4:11 and the cold night after the fall
This is a study of Scripture. Nothing here is legal, tax, insurance or investment advice; ask a business lawyer and a tax professional who know your state.
Sources: Ecclesiastes 1:1, 4:8-11; Proverbs 25:1, 25:19; Genesis 12:5, 13:1-11 (King James Version) · Westminster Leningrad Codex (word counts) and Strong's Hebrew dictionary · Connelly v. United States, 602 U.S. 257 (2024) · Social Security Administration, Disability Benefits, Publication No. 05-10029 (July 2026).
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