Proverbs 22:4, "The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life." Solomon would pass these words on to his son, the audience of the book of Proverbs. I would imagine that Solomon had seen this lesson repeated in his life and in his father's stories. But it would seem viable that he learned this in the story of his ancestry. Solomon was the great-great-grandson of Ruth, the noble Moabite woman who would marry Boaz of Bethlehem. Ruth was forced into wi