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Look! His spirit within him is puffed up;
    it is not upright.
    But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.
How much less[a] the defiant;[b]
    the arrogant, treacherous man?
He who broadens his throat like Sheol,
    and who, like death, is not satisfied,
and who gathers to himself all the nations,
    and harvested for himself all the peoples,
    will not succeed.
Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him,
    with ridicule and riddles against him, saying,
‘Woe to him who heaps up what is not his’?
    For how long?
    And, ‘Woe to him who makes himself heavy with pledges’?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:5 Literally “And moreover because”
  2. Habakkuk 2:5 “Defiant” follows the Dead Sea Scrolls (1QpHab)