Ecclesiastes 9:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Ecclesiastes 9:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Proverbs 24:5
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs 21:22
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
Mark 6:2-3
And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? …
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. Resuming the sentiment (Ec 7:19; Pr 21:22; 24:5). poor man’s wisdom is despised--not the poor man mentioned in Ec 9:15; for his wisdom could not have saved the city, had “his words not been heard”; but poor men in general. So Paul (Ac 27:11).