Ecclesiastes 4:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.

¹³ Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

¹⁴ Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.