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Habakkuk 2:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
Habakkuk 2:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
4 Look, his soul is puffed up and is not righteous within him[a]—but the righteous one will live by his faith.[b] 5 Indeed, wine[c] betrays that arrogant and restless one, because he is as greedy as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations and collects all the peoples to himself.
6 All these people will make up proverbs and mocking poems against him, won’t they? They will say, “Woe to the one who accumulates what is not his. (How long will this last?) Woe to the one who makes himself rich by foreclosing on collateral.”
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:4 The antecedent of his and him is uncertain, and there are other difficulties with the Hebrew. The phrase must refer to an ungodly man—in the immediate context, to the Babylonians.
- Habakkuk 2:4 The word can also mean faithfulness, but in Romans 1:17 Paul uses the phrase in reference to faith.
- Habakkuk 2:5 Hebrew variant wealth
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