Ecclesiastes 4:13
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Better is a poor and wise child, than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
A poor yet wise youth is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction and counsel (friendly reproof, warning)—
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)—
¶ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.
A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish king, who no longer listens to advice.
Better a youth who is poor but wise than a king who is old but foolish, no longer willing to listen to advice.
You may be poor and young, but if you are wise, you are better off than a foolish old king who won't listen to advice.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.
Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
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.
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.
Better a poor but wise child than an old but foolish king, who no longer knows enough to pay attention to a warning,
Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.
Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.
A poor but wise ·boy [youth] is better than a foolish but old king who doesn’t listen to advice [Prov. 11:14; 15:22; 20:18; 24:6].
Better is a poor and wise child, than an old and foolish King, which will no more be admonished.
A young man who is poor and wise is better than an old, foolish king who won’t take advice any longer.
Someone may rise from poverty to become king of his country, or go from prison to the throne, but if in his old age he is too foolish to take advice, he is not as well off as a young man who is poor but intelligent.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.
A young person may be poor but wise. He is better than a foolish, old king who doesn’t listen to advice.
A poor but wise youth is better than an old but foolish king who will no longer accept correction.
¶ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king who will no longer be admonished.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive warning.
A poor but wise youth is better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to receive advice.
It is better to be a poor but wise youth than to be an old and foolish king who refuses all advice.
A poor child with some wisdom is better off than an old but foolish king who doesn’t know which end is up. I saw a youth just like this start with nothing and go from rags to riches, and I saw everyone rally to the rule of this young successor to the king. Even so, the excitement died quickly, the throngs of people soon lost interest. Can’t you see it’s only smoke? And spitting into the wind?
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who will no longer be admonished.
A young man who is poor and wise is better than an old, foolish king who won’t take advice any longer.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows caution;
A poor yet wise youth is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction—
A poor yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who will no longer take advice.
A poor but wise boy is better than a foolish but old king who doesn’t listen to advice.
A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive advice.
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.
Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.
A poor and wise boy is better than an old and foolish king who will no longer listen to words of wisdom.
It is better to be a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who refuses all advice.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who will no longer take advice.
Better is a poor and a wise yeled than an old and foolish melech, who will no more be admonished.
Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will no longer be admonished.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning.
A poor, wise youth is better off than an old, foolish king who no longer accepts advice.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
A poor man and wise is better than an eld king and fool(ish), that cannot before-see into time to coming. (A poor person who is wise, is better than an old king who is foolish, and who cannot foresee into the time to come, or who will not listen to good advice.)
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.
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