behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given to you a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like you before you, and after you none shall rise up like you.
And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had judged, and feared from the face of the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.
I spoke with my heart, saying, Behold, I have become great and have increased wisdom over all that have been over Jerusalem before me. Yea, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.
For God gives wisdom, and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and to heap up, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and striving after wind.
Then you shall see and be bright; and your heart shall dread and enlarge. For the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you; the wealth of nations shall come to you.
As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, and not the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of My servant David, and the Levites who minister to Me.
And He changes the times and the seasons; He causes kings to pass away, and sets up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise men, and knowledge to those who know understanding.
And Midian and Amalek, and all the sons of the east, were lying in the valley, as the locusts for multitude. And there was no number of their camels being as the sand on the lip of the sea for multitude.