Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. Qohelet observes oppression — the tears of the oppressed without a comforter — and declares the dead better off than the living. He meditates on the rivalry that motivates toil, the loneliness of those with no companion, and the vulnerability …
Outras Traduções
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
Referências Cruzadas
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And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom …
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the …
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage …
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and …
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. …
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of …
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a …
Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be …
As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.