Habakkuk 1:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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

Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will 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 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;

Habakkuk 1:15

He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.