“‘Your heart is proud 2 and you said, “I am a god; 3
I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –
yet you are a man and not a god,
though you think you are godlike. 4
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,
nor could the fir trees 5 match its boughs;
the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;
no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.
1 tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).
2 tn Heb “lifted up.”
3 tn Or “I am divine.”
4 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”
5 tn Or “cypress trees” (cf. NASB, NLT); NIV “pine trees.”