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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 4:13-16
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Ecclesiastes 4:13
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Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning.
Ecclesiastes 4:14
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The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
Ecclesiastes 4:15
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I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
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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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