14There 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:
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 13-18)Solomon still recommends wisdom to us as necessary to the preserving of our peace and the perfecting of our business, notwithstanding the vanities and crosses which human affairs are subject to. He had said (Eccl. 9:11), Bread is not always to the wise ; yet he would not therefore be thought either to disparage, or to discourage, wisdom, no, he still retains his principle, that wisdom excels folly...
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