Ecclesiastes 9:13-15

New International Version - UK

Wisdom better than folly

¹³ I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: ¹⁴ there was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. ¹⁵ Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.