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People, Politics, and Popularity

13 A young leader who is poor but wise is better than a king who is old but foolish. That old king does not listen to warnings. 14 Maybe the young ruler was born a poor man in the kingdom. And maybe he came from prison to rule the country. 15 But I have watched people in this life,[a] and I know this: People will follow that young man. He will become the new king.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 4:15 in this life Literally, “under the sun.”

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