Habakkuk 1:14 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

You make all people like the fish in the sea, like schools of sea life that have no ruler.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

ASV:

and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

BBE:

He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

DBY:

And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.

ERV:

and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

JPS:

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

WBS:

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals that have no ruler over them?

WEB:

and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

YLT:

And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.

Habakkuk 1:14 Cross References

XREF:

Habakkuk 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You can not look on wickedness with favor. Why do You look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they?

Habakkuk 1:15 The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

1:14 And makest men as the {l} fishes of the sea, as the creeping animals, [that have] no ruler over them?
(l) So that the great devours the small, and the Chaldeans destroy all the world.

WES:

1:14 And makest - Not infusing cruel appetites, but permitting them to act according to such appetite which was already in them. As the fishes - Of which the greater greedily devour the smaller. Creeping things - Which in the waters are food for the lesser fry; so the world, like the sea, is wholly oppression. No ruler - None to defend the weak, or restrain the mighty.

MHC:

1:12-17 However matters may be, yet God is the Lord our God, our Holy One. We are an offending people, he is an offended God, yet we will not entertain hard thoughts of him, or of his service. It is great comfort that, whatever mischief men design, the Lord designs good, and we are sure that his counsel shall stand. Though wickedness may prosper a while, yet God is holy, and does not approve the wickedness. As he cannot do iniquity himself, so he is of purer eyes than to behold it with any approval. By this principle we must abide, though the dispensations of his providence may for a time, in some cases, seem to us not to agree with it. The prophet complains that God's patience was abused; and because sentence against these evil works and workers was not executed speedily, their hearts were the more fully set in them to do evil. Some they take up as with the angle, one by one; others they catch in shoals, as in their net, and gather them in their drag, their enclosing net. They admire their own cleverness and contrivance: there is great proneness in us to take the glory of outward prosperity to ourselves. This is idolizing ourselves, sacrificing to the drag-net because it is our own. God will soon end successful and splendid robberies. Death and judgment shall make men cease to prey on others, and they shall be preyed on themselves. Let us remember, whatever advantages we possess, we must give all the glory to God.

CONC:

Animals Crawling Creatures Creeping Fish Fishes Makest None Ruler Ruling Worms

Animals Crawling Creatures Creeping Fish Fishes Makest Ruler Ruling Sea Worms

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