12. Though echad may be overpowered, shnayim shall withstand him; and a khoot hameshulash (threefold cord) is not quickly broken.
13. Better is a poor and a wise yeled than an old and foolish melech, who will no more be admonished.
14. For out of the bais hasohar he cometh to reign, although he was born a poor man in his malchut (kingdom).
15. I considered all the living ones which walk under the shemesh in the throng of the yeled, that is, the second one that shall enter into the place of the former [melech].
16. There is no ketz of kol haAm, all those at whose head he stands; and yet they who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is hevel and striving for ruach.