Ecclesiastes 9:13-18

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹³ ¶ I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, which is important unto me:

¹⁴ There was a little city and few men within it; and a great king came against it and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it;

¹⁵ now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no one remembered that same poor man.

¹⁶ Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength: even though the poor man’s knowledge is despised, and his words are not heard.

¹⁷ The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rules among fools.

¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.