Ecclesiastes 4:13Douay-Rheims
Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.
Related Verses
Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
Genesis 3:8
And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
Genesis 3:16
To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
Genesis 4:13
And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.
Genesis 6:4
Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.