| Ecclesiastes 4:13 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | A young man who is poor and wise is better than an old, foolish king who won't take advice any longer.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| 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. |
| BBE: | A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others. |
| DBY: | Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished. |
| ERV: | Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more. |
| JPS: | Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more. |
| WBS: | Better is a poor and a wise child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. |
| WEB: | Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more. |
| YLT: | Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more. |
| Ecclesiastes 4:13 Cross References |
| XREF: | Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Ecclesiastes 9:15 But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 4:13 Better - More happy. Now he proceeds to another vanity, That of honour and power. Than a king - Who hath neither wisdom to govern himself, nor to receive the counsels of wiser men. |
| MHC: | 4:13-16 People are never long easy and satisfied; they are fond of changes. This is no new thing. Princes see themselves slighted by those they have studied to oblige; this is vanity and vexation of spirit. But the willing servants of the Lord Jesus, our King, rejoice in him alone, and they will love Him more and more to all eternity. |
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