The example of a wise poor youth and an old king
가난한 지혜로운 소년과 늙은 왕의 사례
Ecclesiastes 4:13–16: The speaker prefers a wise poor youth to an old foolish king who will no longer accept correction. He speaks of a poor person rising from prison to kingship and of a succeeding youth, yet says later people do not rejoice in him. Neither figure is named.
Direct relationships 0
Open in the full graphNo relationship is recorded yet.
Collected relationship evidence
Source-backed narrative relations; not independent historical verification. Legacy dates and coordinates are outside this review.
Collection & rightsSource evidence (1)
AI-assisted comparison with the cited narrative; not independent historical verification.
- ECC 4:13–16, engwebp
13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.
14For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.
15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-10-01
Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Verses tagged with this entry
Names in the World English Bible text that carry this entry’s tag. They are carried over from the tags on the Korean Revised Version, which are matched by name inside chapters that already have collected evidence, and a verse where the English says “he” carries none. All await human review. They are a separate list from the source passages above. An empty list does not mean the entry is absent from the text.
No verse carries this tag yet.
Something looks wrong in this entry?
This prepares a report carrying the entry, what it currently says and what it cites, so a reviewer can act on it. Nothing leaves this page until you press Send; the operator alone reads what you send.
Write what looks wrong first; a report without it cannot be acted on.
This is exactly what gets copied or sent:
[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: The example of a wise poor youth and an old king (event-ecc-4-the-wise-youth-and-old-king) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/ecc-4-the-wise-youth-and-old-king Current wording: Ecclesiastes 4:13–16: The speaker prefers a wise poor youth to an old foolish king who will no longer accept correction. He speaks of a poor person rising from prison to kingship and of a succeeding youth, yet says later people do not rejoice in him. Neither figure is named. Cited evidence: ECC 4:13–16, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.