Ecclesiastes 4:13-15

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¹³ A young man may be very poor. But if he is wise, he is better than a king who is foolish. When the king is old, he may not listen to his friends' advice. ¹⁴ A young man who is wise may even become king himself one day. He may have been in prison. He may have been born in a poor family in that kingdom. But he may later rule there as king.

¹⁵ I thought about all the people who live on the earth. I realized that one of them would also become king one day. He would rule instead of the other young man who became king.