Ecclesiastes 9:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no man [seriously] remembered that poor man.

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.

Common English Bible

Now there lived in that town a poor but wise man who saved everyone by his wisdom. But no one remembered that poor man.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And there was found within it, a poor and wise man, and he freed the city through his wisdom, and nothing was recorded afterward of that poor man.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:15 Cross References

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.

Proverbs 21:22

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

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 already forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers which are in a city.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And withal I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.