Ezekiel 28:5

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

Ezekiel 28:5 in Other Translations

5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

5 by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—

5 Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich, and your riches have made you very proud.

5 You used your head well, worked good deals, made a lot of money. But the money has gone to your head, swelled your head - what a big head!

5 by thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;--

5 Because of your great skill in trading, you've made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth.

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

5 You have used your great skill in trading to increase your wealth. You are very rich. So your heart has become proud." ' "

Ezekiel 28:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 28:5

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic
Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" ^F9; through great skill in trade and commerce: hast thou increased thy riches;
to a very great degree, a prodigious bulk; so antichrist has done, especially through trafficking with the souls of men, which is one part of his merchandise, as it was of Tyre, ( Revelation 18:13 ) ( Ezekiel 27:13 ) : and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches;
which are apt to puff up and make men highminded, and swell them with a vain opinion of themselves, and to make haughty, insolent, and scornful, in their behaviour to others; thus elated with worldly grandeur and riches, the whore of Rome is represented as proud, vain, and haughty, ( Revelation 18:7 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (Ktlkrb) "in negotione tua", V. L. Pagninus, Starckius; "in mercatura tua", Junius & Tremellius.

Ezekiel 28:5 In-Context

3 Are you wiser than Daniel ? Is no secret hidden from you?

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

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

6 “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god,

7 I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor.

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 23:8
• 2. S Jeremiah 9:23; S Ezekiel 27:33
• 3. S Job 31:25; Psalms 52:7; Psalms 62:10; Hosea 12:8; Hosea 13:6