Ecclesiastes 4:13-15

New International Reader's Version

Getting Ahead Is Meaningless

¹³ A poor but wise young man is better off than an old but foolish king. That king doesn’t pay attention to a warning anymore. ¹⁴ The young man might have come from prison to become king. Or he might have been born poor within the kingdom but still became king. ¹⁵ I saw that everyone was following the young man who had become the new king.