Ecclesiastes 4:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Even though [the youth] comes out of prison to reign, while the other, born a king, becomes needy.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ He emerged from prison to become king, even though during his rule a poor child is born.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ For sometimes, one goes forth from prison and chains, to a kingdom, while another, born to kingly power, is consumed by need.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:14 Cross References

Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

2 Kings 24:12

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 24:6

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 25:7

And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

Job 5:11

So that he setteth up on high those that be low; And those which mourn are exalted to safety.

Ecclesiastes 4:15

I saw all the living which walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

Daniel 4:31

While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: the kingdom is departed from thee,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, he lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.