A rich person’s wealth is a strong city or like a high wall—in his imagination.
Ezekiel 28:4 - Tree of Life Version By your wisdom and by understanding you have made wealth for yourself and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 with thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition With your own wisdom and with your own understanding you have gotten you riches and power and have brought gold and silver into your treasuries; American Standard Version (1901) by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; Common English Bible By your wisdom and discernment, you made yourself rich, and you filled your storehouses with silver and gold. Catholic Public Domain Version By your wisdom and prudence, you have made yourself strong, and you have acquired gold and silver for your storehouses. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures. |
A rich person’s wealth is a strong city or like a high wall—in his imagination.
I further observed under the sun: The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the mighty, nor does bread come to the wise, or wealth to the discerning, or favor to the skillful; for time and chance befall them all.
For he said: “By the strength of my own hand I’ve done it, and my own wisdom, for I am shrewd! I abolished the borders of peoples, and plundered their treasures. As a mighty one I cast down inhabitants.
Why do you brag about valleys— your flowing valley, faithless daughter? Trusting in your treasures: ‘Who will come against me?’
When your merchandise came out from the seas, you satisfied many people. With the abundance of your wealth and your wares you enriched the kings of the earth.
speak and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great crocodile lying in his rivers, who says: “My Nile is my own —I made it for myself.”
There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father, he was found to have insight and intelligence, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. So King Nebuchadnezzar your father made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and diviners.
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet, and offers incense to his fishing-net. For through them his portion is rich and his food abundant.