Ezekiel 28:3

Literal Standard Version

Behold, you [are] wiser than Daniel, || No hidden thing have they concealed from you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yes, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

Hebrew Names Version
behold, you are wiser than Daniyel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

King James Version
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

English Standard Version
you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;

New American Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you!

New Century Version
You think you are wiser than Daniel. You think you can find out all secrets.

Amplified Bible
Behold, you are [imagining yourself] wiser than Daniel; There is no secret [you think] that is hidden from you;

World English Bible
behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Behold, thou art wiser then Daniel: there is no secrete, that they can hide from thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel;There is no secret that is a match for you.

Berean Standard Bible
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

Contemporary English Version
You think you're wiser than Daniel and know everything.

Complete Jewish Bible
Sure, you are wiser than Dani'el! No secret can be hidden from you!

Darby Translation
behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is obscure for thee;

Easy-to-Read Version
You think you are wiser than Daniel and no secret is hidden from you.

George Lamsa Translation
Perhaps you are wiser than Daniel, or you have seen hidden things by your wisdom;

Good News Translation
You think you are wiser than Danel, that no secret can be kept from you.

Lexham English Bible
Look, are you wiser than Daniel, so that no secret is hidden from you?

Literal Translation
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. Every one of the secret things are not hidden to you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, thou thynkest thy selfe wyser then Daniel, that there is no secretes hyd from ye.

American Standard Version
behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee;

Bible in Basic English
See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! there is no secret that they can hide from thee!

King James Version (1611)
Behold, thou art wiser then Daniel: there is no secret that they can hide from thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, thou thinkest thy selfe wyser then Daniel, that there is no secretes hyd from thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge?

English Revised Version
behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thou art wisere than Danyel, ech priuetee is not hid fro thee;

Update Bible Version
look, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

New English Translation
Look, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you.

New King James Version
(Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that can be hidden from you!

New Living Translation
You regard yourself as wiser than Daniel and think no secret is hidden from you.

New Life Bible
You are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.

New Revised Standard
You are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! wiser, thou than Daniel, - No secret, have they hidden from thee:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.

Revised Standard Version
you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, thou [art] wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.

Contextual Overview

¹And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, ²"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because your heart has been high, || And you say: I [am] a god, || I have inhabited the habitation of God, || In the heart of the seas, || And you [are] man, and not God, || And you give out your heart as the heart of God, ³Behold, you [are] wiser than Daniel, || No hidden thing have they concealed from you.⁴By your wisdom and by your understanding || You have made wealth for yourself, || And make gold and silver in your treasuries. ⁵By the abundance of your wisdom, || Through your merchandise, || You have multiplied your wealth, || And your heart is high through your wealth. ⁶Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because of your giving out your heart as the heart of God, ⁷Therefore, behold, I am bringing in strangers against you, || The terrible of the nations, || And they have drawn out their swords || Against the beauty of your wisdom, || And they have pierced your brightness. ⁸They bring you down to destruction, || You die by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas. ⁹Do you really say, I [am] God, || Before him who is slaying you? And you [are] man, and not God, || In the hand of him who is piercing you. ¹⁰You die the deaths of the uncircumcised, || By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken," || A declaration of Lord YHWH.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou art: Daniel 1:20, Daniel 2:48, Daniel 5:11, Daniel 5:12, Zechariah 9:2, Zechariah 9:3

no secret: 1 Kings 4:29-32, 1 Kings 10:3, Job 15:8, Psalms 25:14, Daniel 2:22, Daniel 2:27, Daniel 2:28, Daniel 2:47, Daniel 5:12

Reciprocal: Job 32:13 - We Proverbs 28:11 - rich Ezekiel 14:14 - Daniel Ezekiel 27:3 - O thou Ezekiel 28:15 - perfect Daniel 1:6 - Daniel Daniel 1:17 - Daniel had understanding Daniel 4:9 - no secret Habakkuk 1:16 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blesses them, and God says to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth."

Genesis 9:1
And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

Genesis 13:16
And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;

Genesis 24:60
and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, "You [are] our sister; become thousands of myriads, and your seed possesses the gate of those hating it."

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac calls to Jacob, and blesses him, and commands him, and says to him, "You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Genesis 28:6
And Esau sees that Isaac has blessed Jacob, and has sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from there a wife—in his blessing him that he lays a charge on him, saying, You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan—

Genesis 28:17
and he fears and says, "How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens."

Genesis 28:18
And Jacob rises early in the morning, and takes the stone which he has made his pillows, and makes it a standing pillar, and pours oil on its top,

Genesis 35:11
And God says to him, "I [am] God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply, a nation and an assembly of nations is from you, and kings from your loins go out;

Genesis 41:52
and the name of the second he has called Ephraim: "For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold; thou art wiser than Daniel,.... That is, in his own opinion; or it is ironically said. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it by way of interrogation, "art thou not wiser than Daniel?" who was now at the court of Babylon, and was famous throughout all Chaldea for his knowledge in politics, his wisdom and prudence in government, as well as his skill in interpreting dreams. The Jews have a saying, that

"if all the wise men of the nations were in one scale, and Daniel in the other, he would weigh them all down.''

And perhaps the fame of him had reached the king of Tyre, and yet he thought himself wiser than he; see Zechariah 9:2, antichrist thinks himself wiser than Daniel, or any of the prophets and apostles; he is wise above that which is written, and takes upon him the sole interpretation of the Scriptures, and to fix the sense of them:

there is no secret that they can hide from thee; as he fancied; he had sagacity to penetrate into the councils of neighbouring princes, and discover all plots and intrigues against him; he understood all the "arcana" and secrets of government, and could counterwork the designs of his enemies. Antichrist pretends to know all mysteries, and solve all difficulties, and pass an infallible judgment on things; as if he was of the privy council of heaven, and nothing was transacted there but he was acquainted with it, and had full knowledge of the mind of God in all things.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 28:3. Thou art wiser than Daniel — Daniel was at this time living, and was reputable for his great wisdom. This is said ironically. See Ezekiel 14:14; Ezekiel 26:1.