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Ecclesiastes 9:16

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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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  1. 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:

  2. Ecclesiastes 9:15

    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.

  3. Ecclesiastes 9:17

    The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

  4. Ecclesiastes 9:18

    Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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