Ecclesiastes 4:12-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. And if a man prevail against one, two shall withstand him: a threefold cord is not easily broken.

13. Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

14. Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4