Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. Better is a poor and a wise child - The Targum applies this to Abraham. "Abraham was a poor child of only three years of age; but he had the spirit of prophecy, and he refused to worship the idols which the old foolish king - Nimrod - had set up; therefore Nimrod cast him into a furnace of fire. But the Lord worked a miracle and delivered him. Yet here was no knowledge in Nimrod, and he would not be admonished." The Targum proceeds:
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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.