Ecclesiastes 9:14-16

Modern English Version

¹⁴ There was a small city with a few men in it; and a great king came and surrounded it, and he built up great siege works against it. ¹⁵ But a poor, wise man was found there, and he himself in his wisdom delivered the city, but no one remembered that poor man. ¹⁶ Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.”