Habakkuk 1:14 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Why do You make men like the fish of the sea, like reptiles and creeping things that have no ruler [and are defenseless against their foes]?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁴ You made humans like the fish of the sea, like creeping things with no one to rule over them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler.

Habakkuk 1:14 Cross References

Proverbs 6:7

which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Habakkuk 1:13

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?

Habakkuk 1:15

They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.