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Ecclesiastes 9:15

Ecclesiastes chapter 9 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.14There 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.

v.15This passage

v.16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:16

    For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

  • Genesis 40:23

    Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

  • 2 Samuel 20:22

    Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:13

    Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

  • Esther 6:2

    And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.