It was majestic in beauty,
    with its spreading boughs,
for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.(A)
The cedars(B) in the garden of God
    could not rival it,
nor could the junipers
    equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees(C)
    compare with its branches—
no tree in the garden of God
    could match its beauty.(D)
I made it beautiful
    with abundant branches,
the envy of all the trees of Eden(E)
    in the garden of God.(F)

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Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

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