1 Esdras 3:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ and said, ‘When the king wakes, they will give him the writing; and to the one whose statement the king and the three nobles of Persia judge to be wisest the victory shall be given according to what is written.’ ¹⁰ The first wrote, ‘Wine is strongest.’ ¹¹ The second wrote, ‘The king is strongest.’