Ecclesiastes 4:15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor.

◄ Ecclesiastes 4:15 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor.

English Standard Version
I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king’s place.

New American Standard Bible
I have seen all the living under the sun throng to the side of the second lad who replaces him.

King James Bible
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I saw all the living, who move about under the sun, follow a second youth who succeeds him.

International Standard Version
I observed everyone who lives and walks on earth, along with the youth who will take the king's place.

American Standard Version
I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Darby Bible Translation
I saw all the living that walk under the sun, with the child, the second, that should stand up in his stead.

Young's Literal Translation
I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:13-16 People are never long easy and satisfied; they are fond of changes. This is no new thing. Princes see themselves slighted by those they have studied to oblige; this is vanity and vexation of spirit. But the willing servants of the Lord Jesus, our King, rejoice in him alone, and they will love Him more and more to all eternity.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

15. "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.