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Ecclesiastes 4:13

Context
Labor Motivated by Prestige-Seeking

4:13 A poor but wise youth is better than an old and foolish king

who no longer knows how to receive advice.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

Context

9:16 So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, 1 

but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens 2  to his advice. 3 

1 tn Or “power.”

2 tn The participle form נִשְׁמָעִים (nishmaim, Niphal participle mpl from שָׁמַע, “to listen”) is used verbally to emphasize a continual, durative, gnomic action.

3 tn Heb “his words are never listened to.”



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