⁴ by your wisdom and your understanding
    you have amassed wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries.^(A)

⁴ Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    be wise enough to desist.^(A)
5 When your eyes light upon it, it is gone,
    for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.

¹¹ The wealth of the rich is their strong city;
    in their imagination it is like a high wall.^(A)

² Hamath also, which borders on it,
    Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.^(A)
3 Tyre has built itself a rampart
    and heaped up silver like dust
    and gold like the dirt of the streets.^(B)
4 But now, the Lord will strip it of its possessions
    and hurl its wealth into the sea,
    and it shall be devoured by fire.^(C)

¹⁶ Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and makes offerings to his seine,
for by them his portion is lavish,
    and his food is rich.