Ecclesiastes 4:14 - Adam Clarke

Ecclesiastes 4:14

12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.
And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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13 Better a poor and wise youth
Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.

14 For he comes out of prison to be king,
Although¹ he was born poor in his kingdom.

15 I saw all the living who walk under the sun;
They were with the second youth who stands in his place.

16 There was no end of all the people¹ over whom he was made king;
Yet those who come afterward will not rejoice in him.
Surely this also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Ecclesiastes 4:14

For out of prison he cometh to reign - " Then Abraham left the country of the idolaters, where he had been imprisoned, and came and reigned over the land of Canaan; and Nimrod became poor in this world." This is the fact to which the ancient rabbins supposed Solomon to allude.

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