A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 4:13
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Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 4:11
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
- Ecclesiastes 4:12
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
- Ecclesiastes 4:14
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.