 | 1847 - 1026 sidor
...his wisdom delivered the city ; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom i* hy sight, O Lord GOD ; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. It) Wisdom... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 sidor
...and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. ''• Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he...man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. That intellectual and moral excellence which religion secures, is a great blessing to a country ; and... | |
 | 1849 - 788 sidor
...it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he...man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. That intellectual and moral excellence which religion secures, is a great blessing to a country ; and... | |
 | 1849 - 778 sidor
...it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. '" Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he...man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. That intellectual and moral excellence which religion secures, is a great blessing to a country ; and... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 sidor
...it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 nswered one of the servants, and said. Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, thai 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and... | |
 | סמואל בן מאיר - 1985 - 268 sidor
...the wise: wisdom is a strong tower to a wise man, by which to guard his city — as it is said: "But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city etc." (9:15) — more than ten rulers which are in the city to guard it. gives Strength to the wise:... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1963 - 388 sidor
...within it; and there came a great king against it, beseiged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he...the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man." The application of the parable is obvious, as Habershon indicates. The world is attacked by Satan,... | |
 | Roberta Louis Goodman - 2002 - 544 sidor
...king against it and besieged it; now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom saved the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, wisdom is better than Gevurah, nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard." (Ecclesiastes... | |
 | Nicholas K. Bromell - 1993 - 300 sidor
...unregistered. One of Heighton's addresses bears for its epigraph the following passage from Ecclesiastes: "Then said I, Wisdom is better than Strength; Nevertheless,...wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard." The first half of this sentence conforms nicely to the central argument of the address — namely,... | |
 | Daniel C. Fredericks - 1993 - 116 sidor
...city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, building great siegeworks against it. 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 (9. 14, 15). For Qoheleth, it is a matter of justice that honorable and... | |
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I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: 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: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by... 
