By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
Parallel translations
- WEB by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
- KJV With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
- NKJV With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
- NASB “By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.
- NLT With your wisdom and understanding you have amassed great wealth— gold and silver for your treasuries.
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Quick answer
By his wisdom the prince amassed great riches, gold, and silver. It acknowledges his real ability while setting up the charge of pride.
Overview
The verse credits the ruler's genuine skill in building wealth through trade and shrewdness. Yet the point is that he took the credit himself, forgetting that every ability and increase comes from God. This misuse of God-given gifts, claiming them as one's own glory, lies at the heart of his condemnation.
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Cross-references · 7
- Prov 18:11A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- Deut 8:17–18You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
- Prov 23:4–5Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- Ezek 29:3Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
- Hab 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
- Zech 9:2–4and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.
- Eccl 9:11I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.
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