And the queen of Sheba hath heard of the fame of Solomon, and cometh in to try Solomon with acute sayings, to Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels bearing spices and gold in abundance, and precious stone; and she cometh in unto Solomon, and speaketh with him all that hath been with her heart,

'A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, a greater than Solomon here!

'A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here!

Heard

and he is wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the nations round about.

Concerning

And He saith to man: -- 'Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

Prove him

And Samson saith to them, 'Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me in the seven days of the banquet, and have found it out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)

And he answering said to them that -- 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

General references

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

and there come out of all the peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth who have heard of his wisdom.

Kings of Tarshish and of the isles send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba a reward bring near.