A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.


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Ecclesiastes 7 19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Proverbs 18 11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Proverbs 29 8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Ecclesiastes 9 15 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.
Ecclesiastes 9 14 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:
Judges 9 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Proverbs 16 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Psalms 65 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:
Proverbs 11 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 24 5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Ecclesiastes 9 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Isaiah 26 5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
1 Samuel 9 6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.
Isaiah 25 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Proverbs 14 16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Job 9 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Genesis 6 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Deuteronomy 22 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
Proverbs 10 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Ecclesiastes 9 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Isaiah 25 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Job 24 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Genesis 11 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Psalms 33 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
Jeremiah 20 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Luke 4 29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Jeremiah 50 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Amos 2 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
Psalms 52 7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Deuteronomy 21 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Jeremiah 9 23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Ezekiel 28 5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
Daniel 4 22 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
Deuteronomy 20 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
Matthew 10 11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
Ezekiel 16 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Proverbs 18 19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Revelation 17 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Acts 9 6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Job 5 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Luke 18 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:
Jeremiah 22 8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
Daniel 11 23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
Jeremiah 32 31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Micah 6 9 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Job 36 5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Proverbs 11 2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Isaiah 5 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Revelation 21 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Proverbs 11 10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.