Habakkuk 1:13

New King James Version

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, And cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours A person more righteous than he?

Cross References

Psalm 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; A fire shall devour before Him, And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”

Acts 2:23

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

Isaiah 64:12

Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord? Will You hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you who plunder, though you have not been plundered; And you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you! When you cease plundering, You will be plundered; When you make an end of dealing treacherously, They will deal treacherously with you.

Isaiah 21:2

A distressing vision is declared to me; The treacherous dealer deals treacherously, And the plunderer plunders. Go up, O Elam! Besiege, O Media! All its sighing I have made to cease.

Psalm 83:1

Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God!

Psalm 73:3

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

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes.

Psalm 35:22

This You have seen, O Lord; Do not keep silence. O Lord, do not be far from me.

Job 15:15

If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,

Esther 4:14

For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

1 Kings 2:32

So the Lord will return his blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword—Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it.

Job 21:7

Why do the wicked live and become old, Yes, become mighty in power?

Psalm 18:26

With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.

Psalm 25:3

Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Psalm 35:17

Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue me from their destructions, My precious life from the lions.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: “Glory to the righteous!” But I said, “I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”

Lamentations 3:36

Or subvert a man in his cause— The Lord does not approve.

Habakkuk 1:14

Why do You make men like fish of the sea, Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?

Zechariah 8:17

Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 23:15

“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.

Job 24:23

He gives them security, and they rely on it; Yet His eyes are on their ways.