New Revised Standard Version
So I said, “Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

Contemporary English Version
So I decided that wisdom is better than strength. Yet if you are poor, no one pays any attention to you, no matter how smart you are.

New American Bible
Though I had said, “Wisdom is better than force,” yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words go unheeded.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?

And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?

wisdom

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.

Ecclesiastes 7:19 Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.

Proverbs 21:22 The wise man hath scaled the city of the strong, and hath cast down the strength of the confidence thereof.

Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.

the poor

Proverbs 10:15 The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin.

Mark 6:2,3 And when the Sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were in admiration at his doctrine, saying: How came this man by all these things? and what wisdom is this that is given to him, and such mighty works as are wrought by his hands? . . .

John 7:47-49 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? . . .

John 9:24-34 They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble. . . .

James 2:2-6 For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire: . . .