Ezekiel 28:4
Good News Translation
Your wisdom and skill made you rich with treasures of gold and silver.

New Revised Standard Version
by your wisdom and your understanding you have amassed wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom has certainly made you rich, because you have storehouses filled with gold and silver.

New American Bible
By your wisdom and intelligence you made yourself rich, filling your treasuries with gold and silver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.

Deuteronomy 8:17,18 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me. . . .

Proverbs 18:11 The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.

Proverbs 23:4,5 Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skilful: but time and chance in all.

Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore will he offer victims to his drag, and he will sacrifice to his net: because through them his portion is made fat, and his meat dainty.

Zechariah 9:2-4 Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise. . . .

Context
Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
3Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee. 4In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.5By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.…
Cross References
Isaiah 10:13
For he hath said: By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high.

Jeremiah 49:4
Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: Who shall come to me?

Ezekiel 27:33
Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

Zechariah 9:2
Emath also in the borders thereof, and Tyre, and Sidon: for they have taken to themselves to be exceeding wise.

Zechariah 9:3
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

Ezekiel 28:3
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