Ecclesiastes 4:14

He cometh] i.e. the poor and wise youth. Whereas also.. poor] RV 'yea, even in his kingdom he (the child) was born poor.' Thus in RV the subject of the whole v. is the youth, whereas in AV two persons are spoken of, viz. the prisoner who rises through wisdom to be a king, and the king who becomes a beggar.

These vv. have been taken to refer to actual events, perhaps in the writer's own day; but no satisfactory reference for them has been found. Thus they had best be understood as a general statement.