“‘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
33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 5 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 6 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 7 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 8 if he sins.’ 9
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 Heb “the sons of your people.”
6 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
7 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
8 tn Heb “by it.”
9 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”