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.