New Revised Standard Version
Even though they mount up high as the heavens, and their head reaches to the clouds,

Contemporary English Version
Though their pride and power may reach to the sky,

New American Bible
Though his pride mount up to the heavens and his head reach to the clouds,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

his excellency

Genesis 11:4 And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

Isaiah 14:13,14 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. . . .

Daniel 4:11,22 He cried aloud, and said thus: Cut down the tree, and chop off the branches thereof: shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruits: let the beasts fly away that are under it, and the birds from its branches. . . .

Amos 9:2 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.

Obadiah 1:3,4 Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible. . . .

Matthew 11:23 And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.

clouds.