Better; more happy. Now he proceeds to another vanity, even that of honour and power, and of the highest places. A poor child; who is doubly contemptible, both for his age, and for his poverty. An old king; venerable both for his age and gravity, and for his royal dignity. So that the comparison is made with the greatest disadvantage that may be. Who will no more be admonished; who hath neither wisdom to govern himself, nor to receive the counsels or admonitions of wiser men, but is foolish, and wilful, and incorrigible.
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Ecclesiastes 4:13
13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.