Ecclesiastes 9:16

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 other versions

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
ASV
Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.
BBE
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
DBY
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
WEB
And I said, `Better `is' wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --
YLT
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
ENG
Then said I, wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
WBT
And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
BSB

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:

¹⁵Now 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.

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

¹⁷The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

¹⁸Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.