^{8 Ref} And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

^{9 Ref} Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

^{10 Ref} Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.

^{11 Ref} And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

^{12 Ref} I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.