3 “Look, are you wiser than Dani’ĕl? Has no secret been hidden from you?
4 “By your wisdom and your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.
5 “By your great wisdom, by your trade you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.”
6 ‘Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “Because you have set your heart as the heart of Elohim,
7 therefore see, I am bringing against you strangers, the ruthless ones of the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the loveliness of your wisdom, and they shall profane your splendour.
8 “Down into the Pit they shall bring you, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
9 “Would you still say before him who slays you, ‘I am Elohim’, whereas you are man, and not Ěl, in the hand of him who slays you?