Ecclesiastes 4:15

I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

In Context

14For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.

16There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 15:6Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 4:14-16

The Advantages of Society. 13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. 14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. 15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. 16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.… Read the whole commentary →

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