Bible verse
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Ecclesiastes 4:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 4.
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.
10 For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!
11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone?
12 And though one may be overpowered, two can resist. Moreover, a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
13 Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
14 For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
16 There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
KJV
Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
ASV
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
ERV
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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