Ecclesiastes 9:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴ There was a little city with few people in it. A great king came against it and besieged it, building great siege-works against it. ¹⁵ Now there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man. ¹⁶ So I said, ‘Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.’