Ecclesiastes 4:12-14 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

12. Where one alone may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken.

13. Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows caution;

14. for from a prison house he came forth to reign; despite his kingship he was born poor.

Ecclesiastes 4