Habakkuk 1:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ You have made people like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.

Habakkuk 1:14 Cross References

Proverbs 6:7

Without having any chief or officer or ruler,

Jeremiah 16:16

I am now sending for many fishermen, says the Lord, and they shall catch them, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill and out of the clefts of the rocks.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Habakkuk 1:15

He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his seine, so he rejoices and exults.