Habakkuk 1:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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;

More versions

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 person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

1 Kings 2:32

And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Job 15:15

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Job 24:23

God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.

Psalm 10:15

Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Psalm 18:26

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Psalm 25:3

Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: They shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

Psalm 35:17

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

Psalm 35:22

Thou hast seen it, O LORD; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 50:21

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Psalm 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: A fire shall devour before him, And it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psalm 73:3

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

Psalm 83:1

O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Isaiah 21:2

A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

Isaiah 24:16

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou hast made an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

Isaiah 64:12

Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Lamentations 3:36

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Habakkuk 1:14

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

Zechariah 8:17

and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

Acts 2:23

him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:

Deuteronomy 23:15

Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: