Habakkuk 1:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹³ Your eyes  are too pure  to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous? Why are you silent while one  who is wicked swallows up one  who is more righteous than himself?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and can not look [inactively] upon injustice. Why then do You look upon the plunderer? Why are you silent when the wicked one destroys him who is more righteous than [the Chaldean oppressor] is?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Common English Bible

¹³ Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you are unable to look at disaster. Why would you look at the treacherous or keep silent when the wicked swallows one who is more righteous?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself?

Habakkuk 1:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ’

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner  son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa  son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Esther 4:14

If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place,  but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.’

Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in his holy ones and the heavens are not pure in his sight,

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful?

Job 24:23

He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it, but his eyes  watch over their ways.

Isaiah 21:2

A troubling vision is declared to me: ‘The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.’

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs: The Splendour of the Righteous One. But I said, ‘I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me.’ The treacherous act treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe, you destroyer never destroyed, you traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, they will betray you.

Isaiah 64:12

Lord, after all this, will you restrain yourself? Will you keep silent and afflict us severely?

Lamentations 3:36

or subverting a person in his lawsuit   – the Lord does not approve of these things.

Habakkuk 1:14

You have made mankind like the fish of the sea, like marine creatures that have no ruler.

Zechariah 8:17

Do not plot evil  in your hearts against your neighbour,  and do not love perjury,  for I hate all this’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

Acts 2:23

Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used  lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.

Deuteronomy 23:15

‘Do not return a slave to his master when he has escaped from his master to you.