Ecclesiastes 4:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:6

And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.

Ecclesiastes 4:14

Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.