Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
13 There is something else I saw, a good example of how wisdom is regarded in this world.
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I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me:
14 There was a little town without many people in it. A powerful king attacked it. He surrounded it and prepared to break through the walls.
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There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it.
15 Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.
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Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.
16 I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.
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So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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