King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 9:14
“[There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 9
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me:
[There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.
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