13 Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see evil: thou canst not behold wickedness: wherefore dost thou look upon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked devoureth the man, that is more righteous than he?

14 And makest men as the [a]fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

15 They take up all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn, whereof they rejoice and are glad.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:14 So that the great devoureth the small, and the Chaldeans destroy all the world.

13 Your eyes are too pure(A) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.(B)
Why then do you tolerate(C) the treacherous?(D)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?(E)
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked(F) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,(G)
    he catches them in his net,(H)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.

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