Ecclesiastes 4:16

Old Testament Wisdom/Poetry ASV (1901)

There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:16 — American Standard Version

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Context — Ecclesiastes 4

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13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

14For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

15I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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