If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.

The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

Every woman who was skilled spun with her hands and brought what she had spun, blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen,

People from all nations came to hear Solomon’s display of wisdom; they came from all the kings of the earth who heard about his wisdom.

Who is a wise person? Who knows the solution to a problem? A person’s wisdom brightens his appearance, and softens his harsh countenance.

Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people – an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

In every matter of wisdom and insight the king asked them about, he found them to be ten times better than any of the magicians and astrologers that were in his entire empire.

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are craftsmen in all the work and artistic designers.

When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected the king, for they realized that he possessed supernatural wisdom to make judicial decisions.