Ecclesiastes 12:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.

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Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!

He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

These are other proverbs of Solomon that the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah copied.

Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.