Ecc 9:13  This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

Ecc 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:

Ecc 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.

Ecc 9:16  Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless, the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Solomon tells the story of a noninfluential but wise man. He used his skill and delivered the city but was never remembered. A similar thing was going to happen to Mordecai in the book of Esther. However, there is an allocation in prayer that did not all…