“I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.”
— WEB
Ecclesiastes 4:15
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“I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.”
— KJV
“I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.”
— ASV
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Commentary
"I considered all the living," the present generation, in relation to ("with") the "second youth" (the "legitimate successor" of the "old king," as opposed to the "poor youth," the one first spoken of, about to be raised from poverty to a throne), that is, Rehoboam. in his stead--the old king's.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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