Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

15. I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

16. The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.