Ecclesiastes 4:16 meaning and explanation
There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The Teacher (the speaker in Ecclesiastes) is reflecting on the poor but wise youth who rose from prison to the throne in verses 13 to 15. Here he observes that the crowds who cheered this new king were countless, yet the generations still to come would not celebrate him either.
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