7:19 Wisdom gives a wise person more protection 1
than ten rulers in a city.
9:16 So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, 2
but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens 3 to his advice. 4
1 tn Heb “gives strength.”
2 tn Or “power.”
3 tn The participle form נִשְׁמָעִים (nishma’im, Niphal participle mpl from שָׁמַע, “to listen”) is used verbally to emphasize a continual, durative, gnomic action.
4 tn Heb “his words are never listened to.”