Give me wisdom and knowledge to rule them properly, for who is able to govern this great nation of yours?"

So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king in all the earth.

Kings from every nation came to visit him and to hear the wisdom God had given him.

How happy these people must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom!

When the queen of Sheba realized how wise Solomon was, and when she saw the palace he had built,

I didn't believe it until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. Truly I had not heard the half of it! Your wisdom is far greater than what I was told.

She exclaimed to the king, "Everything I heard in my country about your achievements and wisdom is true!

"And you, Ezra, are to use the wisdom God has given you to appoint magistrates and judges who know your God's laws to govern all the people in the province west of the Euphrates River. If the people are not familiar with those laws, you must teach them.

And this is what he says to all humanity: 'The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.' "

An empty-headed person won't become wise any more than a wild donkey can bear human offspring!