Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBetter 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 but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth no more how to be admonished.
About this book
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About this book
Old TestamentEcclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''
- Author
- Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
- Date
- Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).