13 Your eyes are too (A)pure to [a]approve evil,
And You can not look on wickedness with favor.
Why do You (B)look with favor
On those who deal (C)treacherously?
Why are You (D)silent when the wicked (E)swallow up
Those more righteous than they?
14 Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them?
15 The Chaldeans (F)bring all of them up with a hook,
(G)Drag them away with their net,
And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

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  1. Habakkuk 1:13 Lit look at