Ecclesiastes 9:13-18

The Voice

¹³ I have witnessed an example of wisdom under the sun and admit I found it impressive: ¹⁴ Once there was a small town with only a few people in it. One day, out of nowhere, a king and his powerful army marched against it, surrounded it, and besieged it. The villagers didn’t know how to fend off such a powerful enemy. ¹⁵ But one man, who was very poor but very wise, rallied the villagers and managed to drive the army away. (The village remains to this day, but no one remembers the name of that one wise man who saved the village.) ¹⁶ So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the wisdom of the poor is despised; nobody listens to their wise counsel.