16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
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So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)Solomon, having asserted in general that all is vanity , and having given some general proofs of it, now takes the most effectual method to evince the truth of it, 1. By his own experience; he tried them all, and found them vanity. 2. By an induction of particulars; and here he begins with that which bids fairest of all to be the happiness of a reasonable creature, and that is knowledge and learni…
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