Ecclesiastes 9:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:15 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who will no longer take advice.

Genesis 40:23

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph but forgot him.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went to all the people with her wise plan. And they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, and all went to their homes, while Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

Proverbs 21:22

One wise person went up against a city of warriors and brought down the stronghold in which they trusted.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives strength to the wise more than ten rulers who are in a city.