1 Esdras 3:11

⁹and said that, when the king is risen, some will give him the writing; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as was appointed.

¹⁰The first wrote, Wine is the strongest.

— 1 Esdras 3:11 —

¹²The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.

¹³Now when the king was risen up, they took their writings, and delivered them unto him, and so he read them: