(15.) =and was found in it= (again emphatic) =a man= (איש, the rest are אנשים) =poor= (chapter iv. 13, and here only, מסכן, LXX. πένητα. The meaning of πένης is that kind of poverty which seeks its food by labour, and differs from πτωχὸς, which signifies a mendicant. Fuerst gives the derivation, ס־כן, of the root, which would imply such a meaning as the LXX. have), =wise= (there is no copula between these two qualifying words. It is not a poor _and_ wise man, but a man economically wise――who could make his wisdom go a long way), =and saved= (even) =he= (the turn of meaning is, that the safety of the city was found in himself, as the embodiment of wisdom) =the city= (with את emphatic, which the LXX. notice by the rendering, δ ι α σώσῃ αὐτὸς τ ὴ ν πόλιν) =in his wisdom; and a man= (not exactly ‘humanity,’ which we have seen would require the article, but ‘man’ as representing the individuals generally) =did not remember= (the verb follows the nominative), =with respect to that man= (את, with the article, which the LXX. notice by σὺν, with a _genitive_! but in reality the genitive is governed by the verb, σὺν being adverbial), =the poor one, even that same=. (The shade of meaning given by the article is, that mankind, as a rule, do not adequately remember, and so neither reward, wisdom when associated with poverty. ‘The poor inventor and his sorrows,’ have passed into a proverb.) 16 Then said I, Wisdom │ Yet _I_ should say myself that _is_ better than strength: │ wisdom was a real good, and nevertheless the poor man’s │ better than strength, yet the wisdom _is_ despised, and his │ wisdom of the poor working man words are not heard. │ is despised, and his words just │ those which are not listened to. (16.) =Then said I= (in opposition to ‘man,’ above), =good= is =wisdom above might; and the wisdom of the poor= (with the article) =is despised, and his words= (or reasonings, used still in the technical sense common to this book) are those =which are not listened to.= 17 The words of wise _men │ These words of the wise in are_ heard in quiet more than │ a silence are heard: the cry of him that ruleth │ among fools. │ More than the shriek of a │ ruler with fools.