Ezekiel 28:5
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New International Version (©2011)
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich, and your riches have made you very proud.

English Standard Version (©2001)
by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches--

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has become proud because of your wealth."

International Standard Version (©2012)
By your great wisdom, by your skills in trading you have amassed wealth for yourself and your heart has become arrogant because of your wealth."

NET Bible (©2006)
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Because of your great skill in trading, you've made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
By your great wisdom and by your trade have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

American King James Version
By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

American Standard Version
by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;-

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

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

English Revised Version
by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Webster's Bible Translation
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

World English Bible
by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--

Young's Literal Translation
By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:1-19 Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed Divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature. Nor can any wisdom, except that which the Lord gives, lead to happiness in this world or in that which is to come. The haughty prince of Tyre thought he was able to protect his people by his own power, and considered himself as equal to the inhabitants of heaven. If it were possible to dwell in the garden of Eden, or even to enter heaven, no solid happiness could be enjoyed without a humble, holy, and spiritual mind. Especially all spiritual pride is of the devil. Those who indulge therein must expect to perish.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic,.... Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" (i); 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,

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.

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. (Ps 62:10).

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Prophecy against the King of Tyre
…4With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures: 5By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: 6Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God; …

Job 31:24 "If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security,'
Job 31:25 if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
Psalm 52:7 "Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!"
Jeremiah 49:4 Why do you boast of your valleys, boast of your valleys so fruitful? Unfaithful Daughter Ammon, you trust in your riches and say, 'Who will attack me?'
Ezekiel 27:12 "'Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin and lead for your merchandise.
Ezekiel 27:33 When your merchandise went out on the seas, you satisfied many nations; with your great wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.
Ezekiel 28:2 "Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'In the pride of your heart you say, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas." But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.
Hosea 12:7 The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.
Hosea 12:8 Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin."
Hosea 13:6 When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.
Zechariah 9:3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.