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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 9:14-16

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Ecclesiastes 9:14
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there (C1)was a small city with few men in it, and a great king came to it, surrounded it, and constructed large siegeworks against it.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15
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But there was found in it a (C1)poor wise man, and he (F1)saved the city (C2)by his wisdom. Yet (C3)no one remembered that poor man.
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Ecclesiastes 9:16
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So I said, "(C1)Wisdom is better than strength." But the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are (F1)ignored.
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