¹⁶ Then ^(A)a wise woman called from the city, “Hear, hear! Please tell Joab, ‘Come here that I may speak with you.’”

¹³ Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and ^[a]it impressed me. ¹⁴ There ^(A)was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it. ¹⁵ But there was found in it a ^(B)poor wise man and he ^[b]delivered the city ^(C)by his wisdom. Yet ^(D)no one remembered that poor man. ¹⁶ So I said, “^(E)Wisdom is better than strength.” But the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words are not heeded.