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Ecclesiastes 4:14 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 4 · verse 14
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.Ecclesiastes 4:14 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 4:14 in context
12And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
14For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
15I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- kingdommalkûwtha ruleH4438 →
- prisonʼâçarto yoke or hitchH631 →
- prisonbayitha houseH1004 →
- comethyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- reignmâlakto reignH4427 →
- bornyâladto bear youngH3205 →
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Solomon was himself a king, and therefore may be allowed to speak more freely than another concerning the vanity of kingly state and dignity, which he shows here to be an uncertain thing; he had before said so (Pro 27:24, The crown doth not endure to every generation), and his son found it so.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-16