So Solomon had more riches and wisdom than all the other kings on earth.
I will make him my firstborn son, the greatest king on earth.
I said to myself, “I have become very wise and am now wiser than anyone who ruled Jerusalem before me. I know what wisdom and knowledge really are.”
I became very famous, even greater than anyone who had lived in Jerusalem before me. My wisdom helped me in all this.
I am the least important of all God’s people, but God gave me this gift—to tell those who are not Jews the Good News about the riches of Christ, which are too great to understand fully.