4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
4 by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
4 Your sharp intelligence made you world-wealthy. You piled up gold and silver in your banks.
4 With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
4 With your wisdom and understanding you have amassed great wealth- gold and silver for your treasuries.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 28:4
Commentary on Ezekiel 28:1-19
(Read Ezekiel 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.