The statement that one may rise from poverty to kingship, or be born into poverty only to come to kingship, acknowledges that social mobility and change occur within the world's cycles. The ability to move from one condition to another suggests that circumstances are not fixed; yet the impermanence of such rise becomes implicit—if one can rise, one can also fall. This verse maintains tension between the possibility of transformation and the ultimate inability to secure any achieved position.

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