Ecclesiastes 4:13

American Standard Version

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

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Ecclesiastes 4:13 in other translations

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:13 in context

  1. 11Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?
  2. 12And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
  3. 13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
  4. 14For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
  5. 15I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.