Ezekiel 28:3
New International Version
Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you?

New Living Translation
You regard yourself as wiser than Daniel and think no secret is hidden from you.

English Standard Version
you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;

Berean Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

King James Bible
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

New King James Version
(Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that can be hidden from you!

New American Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you!

NASB 1995
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

NASB 1977
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

Amplified Bible
Behold, you are [imagining yourself] wiser than Daniel; There is no secret [you think] that is hidden from you;

Christian Standard Bible
Yes, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yes, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

American Standard Version
behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Are you wiser than Daniel, or have you seen secrets in your wisdom?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge?

Contemporary English Version
You think you're wiser than Daniel and know everything.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.

English Revised Version
behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You think that you are wiser than Daniel and that no secret can be hidden from you.

Good News Translation
You think you are wiser than Danel, that no secret can be kept from you.

International Standard Version
Look! You're wiser than Daniel, aren't you? No secret is too mysterious for you!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that they can hide from thee!

Literal Standard Version
Behold, you [are] wiser than Daniel, | No hidden thing have they concealed from you.

Majority Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

New American Bible
Oh yes, you are wiser than Daniel, nothing secret is too obscure for you!

NET Bible
Look, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you.

New Revised Standard Version
You are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;

New Heart English Bible
look, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

World English Bible
behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, thou art wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
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 you have regarded your heart as that of a god. 3Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you! 4By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 9:23
This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

Ezekiel 14:14
then even if these three men--Noah, Daniel, and Job--were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 28:15
From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways--until wickedness was found in you.

Daniel 1:6
Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Daniel 1:20
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.

Daniel 2:20
and declared: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him.

Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you:

thou are

Daniel 1:20
And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 5:11,12
There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; …

no secret

1 Kings 4:29-32
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore…

1 Kings 10:3
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

Job 15:8
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

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Ezekiel 28
1. God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride
11. A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by Sidon
20. The judgment of Zion
24. The restoration of Israel














(3) Wiser than Daniel.--This is ironically spoken. Daniel was so famed for his wisdom in the great Chaldaean Empire (Daniel 1:20; Daniel 2:48; Daniel 4:18; Daniel 5:11-12; Daniel 6:3, &c.) that the report must have already reached Tyre. He had been twenty years in Nebuchadnezzar's court when Jerusalem fell, and the siege of Tyre was five years later.

Verse 3. - Thou art wiser than Daniel, etc. There is, of course, a marked irony in the words. Daniel was for Ezekiel - and there seems something singularly humble and pathetic in the prophet's reverence for his contemporary - the ideal at once of righteousness (Ezekiel 14:14) and of wisdom. He was a revealer of the secrets of the future, and read the hearts of men. His fame was spread far and wide through the Chaldean empire. And this was the man with whom the King of Tyro compared himself with a self-satisfied sense of superiority, and he found the proof of his higher wisdom in his wealth. Here, again, I venture to trace a side-thrust at Nebuchadnezzar and his tendencies in the same direction," Is not this great Babylon, which I have builded?"

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Behold,
הִנֵּ֥ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

you
אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are wiser
חָכָ֛ם (ḥā·ḵām)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2450: Wise

than Daniel;
מִדָּֽנִיֵּ֑אל‪‬ (mid·dā·nî·’êl)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1840: Daniel -- 'God is my judge', the name of several Israelites

no
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

secret
סָת֖וּם (sā·ṯūm)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's 5640: To stop up, to repair, to keep secret

is hidden from you!
עֲמָמֽוּךָ׃ (‘ă·mā·mū·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6004: To associate, to overshadow


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