12 (A)behold, I have done according to your words; (B)see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.

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12 I will do what you have asked.(A) I will give you a wise(B) and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.

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13 And I have also (A)given you what you have not asked: both (B)riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.

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13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not(A) asked for—both wealth and honor(B)—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal(C) among kings.

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(A)So I became great and [a]excelled (B)more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:9 Lit. increased

I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(A) before me.(B) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

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