“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 9 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.