Ecclesiastes 4:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
12 Where one alone may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord[a] is not easily broken.
13 [b]Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows caution; 14 for from a prison house he came forth to reign; despite his kingship he was born poor.
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