3 Are you wiser than Daniel?Is no secret hidden from you?
4 By your wisdom and understandingyou have gained wealth for yourselfand amassed gold and silverin your treasuries.
5 By your great skill in tradingyou have increased your wealth,and because of your wealthyour heart has grown proud.
6 ‘ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:‘ “Because you think you are wise,as wise as a god,
7 I am going to bring foreigners against you,the most ruthless of nations;they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdomand pierce your shining splendour.
8 They will bring you down to the pit,and you will die a violent deathin the heart of the seas.
9 Will you then say, ‘I am a god,’in the presence of those who kill you?You will be but a mortal, not a god,in the hands of those who slay you.