Ecclesiastes 4:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)–

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹³ A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish king, who no longer listens to advice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Better is a boy, poor and wise, than a king, old and foolish, who does not know to look ahead for the sake of posterity.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 37:2

This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Yisra'el said to Yehoshafat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Mikhayahu the son of Yimlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. Yehoshafat said, *Don't let the king say so.*

2 Chronicles 25:16

It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made you of the king's counsel? Stop! Why should you be struck down? Then the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.

Proverbs 19:1

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.