Habakkuk 1:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Habakkuk 1:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds upon his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and slew with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Job 15:15

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they are supported; and his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Psalm 18:26

with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.

Psalm 25:3

Yea, let none that wait for thee be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Psalm 35:17

How long, O Lord, wilt thou look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!

Psalm 35:22

Thou hast seen, O Lord; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say to themselves, “Aha, we have our heart's desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 50:3

Our God comes, he does not keep silence, before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 83:1

O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam, lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously, the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Isaiah 64:12

Wilt thou restrain thyself at these things, O Lord? Wilt thou keep silent, and afflict us sorely?

Lamentations 3:36

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

Habakkuk 1:14

For thou makest men like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

Zechariah 8:17

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord.”

Acts 2:23

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Deuteronomy 23:15

“You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you;