13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.


In Context

10 For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

11 Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat?

12 And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.

14 For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

15 I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

Ecclesiastes 4:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Better [is] a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a poor and a wise child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.