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Ecclesiastes 9:13

This too I saw as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me:

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Ecclesiastes 9:14

there 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

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are ignored.

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Ecclesiastes 9:17

The words of the wise heard in calm are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

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Ecclesiastes 9:18

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

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