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