Ecclesiastes 9:16 KJV
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Ecclesiastes 9:16, King James Version
In context
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.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Cross-references
- Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
- Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
- Proverbs 21:22 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
- Mark 6:2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?