3. Transience of Popularity 4:13-16
Ecc 4:13
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.Ecc 4:14
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.Ecc 4:15
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.Ecc 4:16
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.