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Ecclesiastes 4:13
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Ecclesiastes 4:13
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Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
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And if two lie together, they shall warm one another: how shall one alone be warmed?
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And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.
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Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
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Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.
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I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.
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