Ecclesiastes 4:13-15

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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

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

¹⁵I saw all the living who walk under the sun with the youth who was to stand up in the king’s stead.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 “Christianity calls upon us to make our old age into an aspect of youth. There is to be no old age in the sense of spiritual exhaustion or moral decrepitude or misanthropic isolation; old age is to be equivalent to increase of kingliness and bounty and holy influence.” “The path of the righteous is as the dawning light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day” (Prov. 4:18 asv).