Ecclesiastes 9:15

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who does not know how to receive admonition any more.

Genesis 40:23

Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went to 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 re

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

Proverbs 21:22

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of the confidence of it.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

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