Ecclesiastes 9:14 in the King James Version
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Context
13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
15 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.