Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 4:14

"For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor." — Ecclesiastes 4:14 (ASV)

Becometh.— Instead of this translation, it is better to render, in his kingdom he was even poor; but there is ambiguity in the Hebrew, as in the English, whether the antecedent of the “his” and the “he” is the old king or the new one.