Ecclesiastes 9:14
“There was a little citie, and few men within it; and there came a great King against it, and besieged it, & built great bulwarks against it:”
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Ecclesiastes 9:14 Context
12For man also knoweth not his time, as the fishes that are taken in an euil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sonnes of men snared in an euill time, when it falleth suddenly vpon them. 13¶ This wisedome haue I seene also vnder the Sunne, and it seemed great vnto me: 14There was a little citie, and few men within it; and there came a great King against it, and besieged it, & built great bulwarks against it: 15Now there was found in it a poore wise man, and hee by his wisedome deliuered the citie; yet no man remembred that same poore man. 16Then said I, Wisedome is better then strength: neuerthelesse, the poore mans wisedome is despised, and his words are not heard.
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[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:
- King James Version
There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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.
- American Standard Version (1901)
There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.
- Basic English Bible
There 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:
- Darby Bible
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:
- Webster's Bible
There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
- World English Bible
A 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;
- Youngs Literal Bible
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;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible