But I didn’t believe the reports until I came and my eyes saw it. Indeed, not even the half was told to me. You’re way past the report of wisdom and prosperity that I’d heard!
1 Kings 10:8 - Tree of Life Version Blessed are your people, blessed are your courtiers who are standing continually before you, listening to 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 didn’t believe the reports until I came and my eyes saw it. Indeed, not even the half was told to me. You’re way past the report of wisdom and prosperity that I’d heard!
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to respond to these people?”
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of understanding.
He who walks with wise men is wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before obscure people.
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts.
As for me, look, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who come to us. But as for you, gather wine, summer fruit and oil, and put them in your jars, and dwell in your cities that you have taken over.”
But He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey 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.