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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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And I said, `Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Better is wisdome then strength: yet the wisedome of the poore is despised, and his wordes are not heard.
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Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.
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And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
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Then said I: 'Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.'
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Then I said, Wisdom [is] better than strength: even though the poor man's knowledge [is] despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Wisdom—Although Vulnerable—is Superior to Folly

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.
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And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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And I said, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength;" and yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said, I, Better is wisdom than strength,—although, the wisdom of the poor man, be despised, and, his words, not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
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Then said I, wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.

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And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
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And so, I declared that wisdom is better than strength. But how is it, then, that the wisdom of the poor man is treated with contempt, and his words are not heeded?

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

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