^{29 Ref} And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.

^{30 Ref} And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

^{31 Ref} For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.

^{32 Ref} He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.

^{33 Ref} He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.

^{34 Ref} People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.