8Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
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Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. …
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)We have here an account of the visit which the queen of Sheba made to Solomon, no doubt when he was in the height of his piety and prosperity. Our Saviour calls her the queen of the south , for Sheba lay south of Canaan. The common opinion is that it was in Africa; and the Christians in Ethiopia, to this day, are confident that she came from their country, and that Candace was her successor, who i…
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