Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, ¹  but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens ²  to his advice. ³ 

Pr 10:15; Pr 21:22; Pr 24:5; Ec 7:19; Ec 9:18; Mr 6:2,3; Joh 7:47-49; Joh 9:24-34; 1Co 1:26-29; Jas 2:2-6

¹ tn Or “power.”

² tn The participle form נִשְׁמָעִים (nishma’im, Niphal participle mpl from שָׁמַע, “to listen”) is used verbally to emphasize a continual, durative, gnomic action.

³ tn Heb “his words are never listened to.”