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Ecclesiastes 4:13-16

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13 Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
14 Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.
14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
15 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.
15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor.
16 The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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