Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageLike a cage crammed with captive birds, their houses overflow with ill-gotten gains — this is how they grew rich and powerful.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GLike a cage full of birds, their houses are stuffed with deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.'
KJV
King James VersionAs a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleLike cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
Footnotes
The *kelub* (cage/basket — a rare word in the Hebrew Bible) overstuffed with *tzipporim* (birds) captures concentrated, hoarded plunder. The wealthy have built their fortunes by trapping others — a direct inversion of the covenant vision in which the vulnerable are protected. FOG retains 'deceit' for the moral weight of the contents; FOG Message renders it 'ill-gotten gains' to make the economic injustice explicit.