14A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
14A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
11 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.
12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.
13 This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:
14 A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
15 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.
16 And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
9:14[There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
9:14There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siegeworks against it.
9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:
9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
9:14A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;
9:14There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: