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Ecclesiastes 4:13

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

Ecclesiastes 4:13 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 4:13 in context

  1. 11Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?
  2. 12If a man prevails against one who 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 doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
  4. 14For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
  5. 15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.