but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
1 Kings 10:8 - English Standard Version 2016 Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Happy are your men! Happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, hearing your wisdom! American Standard Version (1901) Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. Common English Bible Your people and these servants who continually serve you and get to listen to your wisdom are truly happy! Catholic Public Domain Version Blessed are your men, and blessed are your servants, who stand before you always, and who hear your wisdom. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom. |
but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to represent you before the Chaldeans who will come to us. But as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.