Ecclesiastes 4:13

A pore man and wijs is betere than an eld kyng and fool, that kan not bifore se in to tyme to comynge.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

In Context

12And if ony man hath maistri ayens oon, tweyne ayen stonden hym; a threfolde corde is brokun of hard.

14For sum tyme a man goith out bothe fro prysoun and chaynes to a rewme; and anothir borun in to a rewme is wastid bi nedynesse.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:8And the kyng of Israel seide to Josephat, O man, Mychee, sone of Hiemla, is left, bi whom we moun axe the Lord; but Y hate hym, for he prophesieth not good to me, but yuel. To whome Josephat seide, Kyng, spek thou not so.

2 Chronicles 24:20Therfor the Spirit of the Lord clothide Zacharie, the preest, the sone of Joiada; and he stood in the siyt of the puple, and seide to hem, The Lord seith these thingis, Whi breken ye the comaundement of the Lord, `which thing schal not profite to you, and ye han forsake the Lord, that he schulde forsake you?

Proverbs 19:1Betere is a pore man, that goith in his simplenesse, than a riche man bitynge hise lippis, and vnwijs.

Proverbs 28:15A rorynge lioun, and an hungry bere, is a wickid prince on a pore puple.

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