Ezekiel 28:5

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:thy great…: Heb. the greatness of thy wisdom

WEB

By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

ASV

by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;—

LSV

By the abundance of your wisdom, || Through your merchandise, || You have multiplied your wealth, || And your heart is high through your wealth.

YLT

By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.

DBY

by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.

DRC

By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

GNV

By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

JPS

In thy great wisdom by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches —

LXXE

By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.

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WLC

בְּרֹ֧ב חָכְמָתְךָ֛ בִּרְכֻלָּתְךָ֖ הִרְבִּ֣יתָ חֵילֶ֑ךָ וַיִּגְבַּ֥הּ לְבָבְךָ֖ בְּחֵילֶֽךָ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐν τῇ πολλῇ ἐπιστήμῃ σου καὶ ἐμπορίᾳ σου ἐπλήθυνας δύναμίν σου, ὑψώθη ἡ καρδία σου ἐν τῇ δυνάμει σου.

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• Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
• Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
• Hosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
• Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though…
• Hosea 12:7–8A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands. And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
• Proverbs 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
• James 4:13–14Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist…
• 1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
• Deuteronomy 8:13–14and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land…
• Proverbs 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Job 31:24–25If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security, if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
• Deuteronomy 6:11–12with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, be careful not to…
• Romans 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.
• Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• 2 Chronicles 32:23–25Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations. In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to…

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