13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who still does not know how to take warning.14For he came out from the house of the bound to reign, because even in his royalty a poor man was born.15I saw all the living who walk under the sun with the second youth who stands under him.16There is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; the last also will not rejoice in him, for this too is vanity and a striving of spirit.