Ecclesiastes 4:12-14

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹²And though a man might prevail against him who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

¹³Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who ^[a]no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)—

¹⁴Even though [the youth] comes out of prison to reign, while the other, born a king, becomes needy.

Ecclesiastes 4:13 “Christianity calls upon us to make our old age into an aspect of youth. There is to be no old age in the sense of spiritual exhaustion or moral decrepitude or misanthropic isolation; old age is to be equivalent to increase of kingliness and bounty and holy influence.” “The path of the righteous is as the dawning light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day” (Prov. 4:18 asv).