Ecclesiastes 4:11-16 Amplified Bible (AMP)

11. Again, if two lie down together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

12. And though a man might prevail against him who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.

13. Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive counsel (friendly reproof and warning)–

14. Even though [the youth] comes out of prison to reign, while the other, born a king, becomes needy.

15. I saw all the living who walk under the sun with the youth who was to stand up in the king's stead.

16. There was no end to all the people; he was over all of them. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory) and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it.

Ecclesiastes 4