Ecclesiastes 9:13-18

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Better to be wise than to be a fool

¹³ I saw something else that happens on the earth. It is a good example of what wisdom is like. ¹⁴ There was a small city and only a few people lived in it. A powerful king came to attack that city. His army made their camp around the city. They built heaps of earth all around it. ¹⁵ There was a man who lived in the city. He was poor but he was also wise. Because he was wise, he knew how to save the city. But after he saved it, nobody remembered that poor man.

¹⁶ So I realized that wisdom is better than power. But if you are poor, nobody accepts that you are also wise. People soon forget what you said.