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The Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 28, Verse 5

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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
King James Version
By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy 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;--
New English Translation
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
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--
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
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Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
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They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas.
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Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I [am] God? but thou [shalt be] a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
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Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
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Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.