Ecclesiastes 9:15

In 11 translations

BSB

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

KJV

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

WEB

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

ASV

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

LSV

and there has been found in it a poor wise man, and he has delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

YLT

and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

DBY

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

DRC

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.

GNV

And there was founde therein a poore and wise man, and he deliuered the citie by his wisedome: but none remembred this poore man.

JPS

now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

LXXE

and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.

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WLC

וּמָ֣צָא בָ֗הּ אִ֤ישׁ מִסְכֵּן֙ חָכָ֔ם וּמִלַּט־ה֥וּא אֶת־הָעִ֖יר בְּחָכְמָת֑וֹ וְאָדָם֙ לֹ֣א זָכַ֔ר אֶת־הָאִ֥ישׁ הַמִּסְכֵּ֖ן הַהּֽוּא׃Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.Marks an anomalous form.We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.

LXX-Br

καὶ εὕρῃ ἐν αὐτῇ ἄνδρα πένητα σοφὸν, καὶ διασώσῃ αὐτὸς τὴν πόλιν ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἄνθρωπος οὐκ ἐμνήσθη σὺν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τοῦ πένητος ἐκείνου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
• Genesis 40:23The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
• Esther 6:2–3And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. The king inquired, “What honor or…
• 2 Samuel 20:22Then the woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn and his men dispersed from the city, each to his own home.…
• Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

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