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13 Your eyes are too pure to see evil,
    and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.[a]
Why do you look at the treacherous?
Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up
    someone more righteous than him?
14 You make humankind like fish of the sea,
    like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
15 He brings up all of them with a fishhook;
    he drags them up with a fishnet;
he gathers them in his dragnet.
    Therefore, he rejoices and exults.

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  1. Habakkuk 1:13 Or “trouble”