| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Ec 9:15 | King James | Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| poor--as to the temporal advantages of true wisdom, though it often saves others. It receives little reward from the world, which admires none save the rich and great. no man remembered-- (Gen 40:23). |