Ecclesiastes 4:15 in 6 translations

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

1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.

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

1901 · Public domain · The American revision of the English Revised Version. Deliberately literal, and the base text behind several later translations.

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

1890 · Public domain · John Nelson Darby's translation, made for close study rather than public reading. Often exposes grammatical detail other versions smooth over.

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

1898 · Public domain · The most extreme word-for-word rendering here, keeping Hebrew and Greek tense and word order at the cost of natural English.

I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

2000s · Public domain · A modern-English update of the ASV. Reads close to contemporary speech while staying in the literal tradition. Includes the Apocrypha.

I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

1949 · Public domain · Written with roughly a thousand basic English words plus a small Bible vocabulary. The plainest reading available here.