“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:”
Ecclesiastes 9:14 (KJV) |
Ecclesiastes 9:14
From Ecclesiastes 9, in the Book of Ecclesiastes (Old Testament).
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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.