Agur as Solomon Confessing His Thousand Wives

(Proverbs 30:1): "The words of Agur son of Yakeh, the burden [ha-massa]." Agur — for he girded [agar] his loins; son of Yakeh [Yakeh] — a son who was clean [naki] of all sin and iniquity; ha-massa — for he bore [nasa] the yoke of the Holy One, blessed be He; "the utterance of the man [ha-gever]" — for the holy spirit was upon him; "to Itiel [le-Itiel]" — for he understood [hevin] the letters [otiyyot] of God [El]; "and Ukhal" — for he was able [yakhol] to withstand them. How so? That he reigned over those above and those below. From where do we know this? As it is said (1 Kings 5:4): "For he ruled over all the region west of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza." And after all that kingship and all that wisdom and all that praise, he must say (Proverbs 30:2): "Surely I am more brutish than a man" — this is Noah, who is called a man, as it is said (Genesis 6:9): "Noah was a righteous, blameless man in his generations." Solomon said: I should have learned from Noah, who became drunk with wine and was punished for it, yet is still called righteous. "And I have not the understanding of a man" — this is Adam the first man, who had only one wife and she turned him aside, while I married a thousand women, as it is said (1 Kings 11:3): "And he had seven hundred royal wives and three hundred concubines," therefore it is said (1 Kings 11:4): "his wives turned away his heart," as it is said (Proverbs 16:1): "The arrangements of the heart belong to man."