Ezekiel 28:4 “By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amass…”

Ezekiel 28:4

By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten 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 treasuries.

American Standard Version

by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

Geneva Bible 1599

With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.

Darby Translation

by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

Young's Literal Translation

By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy 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:

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Cross references

“With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:”

Proverbs 18:11 Ezekiel 29:3 Ecclesiastes 9:11 Habakkuk 1:16 Zechariah 9:2–4 Deuteronomy 8:17

Proverbs 18:11 · BSB

A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.

Ezekiel 29:3 · BSB

Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

Ecclesiastes 9:11 · BSB

I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happ…

Habakkuk 1:16 · BSB

Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

Zechariah 9:2–4 · BSB

and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.

Deuteronomy 8:17 · BSB

You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

5By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.

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