Ecclesiastes 9:15

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:13

Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to 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 in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

Proverbs 21:22

A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

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