Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Your wisdom and understanding brought you phenomenal wealth. You've brought gold and silver into your treasuries.
New American Standard Bible
You have acquired
And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
King James Version
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
Holman Bible
you have acquired wealth for yourself.
You have acquired gold and silver
for your treasuries.
A Conservative Version
By thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou have gotten thee riches, and have gotten gold and silver into thy treasures.
American Standard Version
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
Amplified
With your [own] wisdom and with your [own] understanding
You have acquired your riches and power
And have brought gold and silver into your treasuries;
Bible in Basic English
By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:
Darby Translation
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
Julia Smith Translation
With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou madest to thee wealth, and thou wilt make gold and silver in thy treasures.
King James 2000
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries:
Lexham Expanded Bible
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
Modern King James verseion
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
With thy wisdom and thy understanding, thou hast gotten thee great wealthiness, and gathered treasure of silver and gold.
NET Bible
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
New Heart English Bible
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
The Emphasized Bible
In thy wisdom and in thine understanding, hast thou gotten thee wealth, - And hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries:
Webster
With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gained for thee riches, and hast gained gold and silver into thy treasures:
World English Bible
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
Youngs Literal Translation
By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries.
Themes
Accumulation of wealth » The accumulation of, disappointing
Commerce » Increased the wealth of nations and individuals
Irony » Instances of » Ezekiel to the prince of tyre
Pride/arrogance » The reward for pride
The Providence of God » Danger of denying
earthly Riches » The perils of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Tyre » Celebrated for » Its wealth
Tyre » Prophecies respecting » Pride a cause of its destruction
Tyre » Inhabitants of » Self-conceited
Wealth » Accumulation of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Interlinear
Chayil
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 28:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prophecy Aimed At The King Of Tyre
3 Look! You're wiser than Daniel, aren't you? No secret is too mysterious for you! 4 Your wisdom and understanding brought you phenomenal wealth. You've brought gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great wisdom, by your skills in trading you have amassed wealth for yourself and your heart has become arrogant because of your wealth."
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17-18
You may say to yourselves, "I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.'
Proverbs 18:11
The wealth of a rich person is his fortified city; in his own imagination, it is like a high wall.
Proverbs 23:4-5
Don't exhaust yourself acquiring wealth; be smart enough to stop.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I considered and observed on earth the following: The race doesn't go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor food to the wise, nor wealth to the smart, nor recognition to the skilled. Instead, timing and circumstances meet them all.
Ezekiel 29:3
Tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm coming to get you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt! You big monster! You lay in wait in the middle of your waterways and say, "My waterways belong to me! I made them for myself!"
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his fishing net, and burns incense in the presence of his dragnet, because by them his assets increase and he gets plenty of food.
Zechariah 9:2-4
Also Hamath, which borders on it along with Tyre and Sidon indeed they are very wise.