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Ecclesiastes 4:15
Ecclesiastes 4:15 is verse 15 of Ecclesiastes chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
King James Version
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
World English Bible
I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
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Ecclesiastes 4:13–16 · Berean Standard Bible
13 Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
14 For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
16 There 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
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.