29 Gud gav Salomo visdom og overmåte megen innsikt og en forstand vidt omfattende som sanden på havets bredd.

30 Salomos visdom var større enn alle Østens barns visdom og all egypternes visdom.

31 Han var visere enn alle mennesker - visere enn esrahitten Etan og Mahols sønner Heman og Kalkol og Darda, og hans navn var kjent blandt alle hedningefolkene rundt omkring.

32 Han laget tre tusen ordsprog, og hans sanger var et tusen og fem.

29 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 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

31 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 He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.