◄ Habakkuk 1:14 ►
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Good News Translation
How can you treat people like fish or like a swarm of insects that have no ruler to direct them?

New Revised Standard Version
You have made people like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

Contemporary English Version
The people you put on this earth are like fish or reptiles without a leader.

New American Bible
You have made mortals like the fish in the sea, like creeping things without a leader.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.

creeping.

Proverbs 6:7 Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Context
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
…13Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself? 14And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.15He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 16:16
Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.

Habakkuk 1:13
Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Habakkuk 1:15
He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.

Habakkuk 1:13
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