Ecclesiastes 9:12-16

For indeed, a person does not know his time: like fish that are caught in a treacherous net and birds caught in a snare, so the sons of mankind are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

This too I saw as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me:

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.

But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are ignored.